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Kris Bartkus ’08, who hosted a party in Quincy??€™s balcony suite after verifying that his room would in fact be receiving a UC reimbursement, said the timbre of the celebration—if affected at all by Pilbeam’s ruling—was only enhanced...
When Helmholtz Professor of Health Sciences Lee Gehrke and his wife, Deborah, arrived at Quincy House last fall as Acting Masters, there wasn’t much in the way of House spirit awaiting them. But within months, the Gehrkes had done more for House community than Quincy??€™s official Masters, Clowes Professor of Science Robert P. Kirshner ’70 and Jayne Loader, had managed in years...
Whether out of apathy or indifference, busyness or nonchalance, Kirshner and Loader, who were on sabbatical this year, have always given a distinct impression of caring little for Quincy??€™s students and staff. Master-student interactions were mostly limited to monthly open houses, to which students were invited but never quite welcomed, and semi-annual formals...
Leaders of Quincy??€™s senior class wrote a letter to Kirshner last month explaining the positive changes the Gehrkes brought to Quincy and asking that they be continued. Over half of Quincy??€™s senior class signed it. Kirshner came to Quincy to discuss the letter with students, but those present described his response as evasive and insincere. Kirshner did agree, in a brief e-mail a week later, to keep Quincy community night—but he appears to have missed the point. It wasn’t until a month after his visit?...
What the senior class, and indeed the entire House, noticed this year was a change in how much its Masters care about Quincy??€™s community and its students. By responding to the seniors’ long list of suggestions with a cursory agreement to keep one new event, while simultaneously undermining other aspects of Quincy??€™s new-found community, Kirshner has yet again demonstrated that he does not understand what students value...