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...Scott Resnick's feature "Masters, Students Feel Pinch of Full Houses" March 21, reminded me of my own situation a few years back, in a five-person group crammed into a tiny two-bedroom suite in Winthrop House. At the same time, Winthrop had an unprecedented number of resident tutors. When I suggested in The Crimson an obvious remedy to our predicament, namely reducing the swollen ranks of the rather useless tutors, the response was immediate: a menacing answering machine message from one tutor and an invitation to the Senior Tutor's office for a dressing down for my "ingratitude...
...Sarah A. Rodriguez '99 is an English concentrator in Winthrop House. Her column appears on alternate Mondays...
...case of John Winthrop House, Master PaulD. Hanson says the problem has manifested itselfnot just in unusually tight living quarters butalso in a dearth of common areas and eating space...
...Hanson, who has been pressing for a seriousstudy of the issue of overcrowding for the lastthree years, says he thinks alumni will be morelikely to donate for structural enhancementswithin the Houses. A capital campaign for theHouses would give him the funding necessary to addtwo wings to Winthrop House, increasing the sizeof both student accommodations and common areas...
With 40 of Winthrop House's 369 residentsliving in De Wolfe, Hanson says it is the overallHouse community that suffers...