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Towards that aim, the HCRC is working to establish a centralized campus committee, composed of representatives from each of the upperclass Houses and first year dorms...
Lewis has thought too narrowly about upperclass-student housing under the mistaken assumption that the Houses as Houses are still valuable. Living in one place for three years, eating in the same dining hall and checking mail in the same place may help encourage community, but it has not done so. Harvard students look to classes and activities as loci for community and to the Houses as places where they sleep in a large building filled with total strangers. Once, communities were linked by at least a four-in-12 sort of preference; now, living together in a House...
...Brown plan. Maybe the best thing to do is to throw in the towel when it comes to the Houses and adopt a plan like Brown's upperclass student housing: beyond the first year, all the College's housing is in one big lottery. Students would pick rooming groups and then compare all the factors, from size to distance from the Yard to view, and chose year-by-year what is best given their lottery pick. Houses will not have an equal distribution of sophomores, juniors and seniors, but the best housing will be more judiciously distributed, students will have...
...other, knowing they have four years together. There is flexibility--students can petition to join friends in other Houses for sophomore year and afterwards. And there is loyalty--students form a strong connection to a House from their first day there, profiting from the friendships with, and guidance of, upperclass students...
...estimated cost to the College for supplying lamps to all upperclass students will be over...