Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eliminating this alternative would seriously narrow the range of undergraduate experiences. Yet, it is precisely this alternative that would be compromised if the CHUL adopts Dean Fox's plan. That proposal, which would establish three-year Houses throughout the system and house all freshmen in the Yard with the object of eliminating sophomores from Canaday Hall, is singular in its lack of sensitivity for the Quad point of view. One only needs to point out that Fox bases his arguments about the Quad's unpopularity on one of the Quad's acknowledged strong points--four-year Houses--to realize...
...certain fundamental alternatives for undergraduates. Currently, Currier, North and South Houses offer students a lifestyle much different from that at the River Houses. They have a mixture of four classes. This aids freshmen in adapting to House life and combines formal House staff advising with informal upperclassman counseling that Yard freshmen cannot receive. They have an almost one-to-one male-female ratio. And, the Quad Houses provide an alternative for many to the overbearing, "old Harvard" atmosphere of the River Houses...
...housing issue may indeed have a long and boring history, as James Cramer says, but its end is not yet at hand. Dean Fox's proposal to house all freshmen in the Yard does not eliminate any of the perceived inequities of the housing system. It does, however, significantly worsen several of the long-standing problems...
These issues are: 1) Can the system provide as adequate an advising staff for all freshmen in the Yard as has been provided by the Quad advising staff and the upperclassmen to the freshmen now housed there; 2) If a one-three system is implemented, how will the increased number of affected sophomores and/or juniors react to being placed in a House not of their choosing and perhaps liking (that is, if given a choice between the Yard or an unpopular House, how many of the students would prefer to have the Yard option still viable...
With the storm, of course, came endless varieties of winter havoc. Beyond snowball fights in the Yard and snowsculptures motivated more by reading period boredom than artistic yearning, the weather forced a bureaucratic scramble for the snowshovels...