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Cambridge YMCA...
Northeastern University has an overenrollment problem this fall, and to accommodate 150 transfer students the school has leased the top two floors of the Boston YMCA, adjacent to the school's campus. The floors have effectively been turned into Northeastern dormitories. A new metal grate across the building's stairways shuts off the sixth and seventh floors from the rest of the building, so that the only access is an elevator which a security guard watches. And while the rest of the YMCA has 11 p.m. parietals, the top floors stay open for traffic all night...
...live at the Y? That's the pits." Pantano added that the atmosphere where he lives is not quite what he had expected at Northeastern. He said when he asked the desk clerk if there was a cigarette machine, the clerk said in shock, "Son, this is the YMCA...
Undergraduates staying at the YMCA have one definite advantage. Alicia Waiter, a resident assistant there, said last week that the students there are charged $50 less than the college's usual room...
...with the Northeastern students staying at the YMCA, the larger the students' rooms at the Sheraton Commander, the fewer complaints they seem to have...