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Kronick also praised Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of University Health Services, for the purchase of special wheelchairs which enabled several disabled students to join the march for the first time...
...widespread belief that the comprehensive plan has been effective has nevertheless not deterred the ongoing review of the changes, which was intended to occur after five years. Part of the reason for the review by a five-master committee headed by South House Associate Master Anne M. Wacker is a "technical obligation" to review the plan as intended after five years, according to Fox. But Fox, who has charged the committee with no particular directive, says the broad objective of the Comprehensive Plan was to create "more or less the same social and educational environment in the Houses. "Recognizing...
...apparent answer, which Wacker says will come via a report by the end of the term, is a resounding "yes." Committee members--the Quad masters plus Mather House Masters David and Patricia Herlihy and Eliot House Master Alan E. Heimert '49--hedge somewhat in discussing specifics. Says Hershbach: "I don't want to steal all the thunder." Nevertheless, the masters are making clear they see the need for further substantive improvements in Quad living. These will probably include a revision of House assignment formulas which severely affect the Quad's crowding situation (see accompanying story), and a call for major...
...while the College administration is selecting a pointedly low profile on the subject, another voice has been noticeably and mysteriously silent--that of the students. Wacker discussed the Comprehensive Plan at a meeting of the now-defunct Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life last spring. But despite her solicitation of student opinion, there were no interested participants. Although the lack of interest may be indicative of the broad satisfaction with the House system, it probably was more a sign of a crumbling student government on its last legs. The new student-faculty Committee on Housing--part...
...many noted buildings over the past 45 years, the first prominent building to show Jahn's personal imprint is Chicago's recently completed Xerox Center. It is straight Mies with one sweeping, un-Miesly rounded corner. Jahn's later design for Chicago's One South Wacker office building demonstrates a less graceful bent toward changed public taste...