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...also paid $50.000 this year in total salary for 370 dorm crew workers and supervisers to remove the debris from the Yard and House dorm rooms the alumni would live...
...viable repair plans, more extensive work is taking place across the Charles. This Monday, the Business School will begin several major renovation programs. Most notable is what Paul H. Lapointe, assistant dean of the B-School, calls a "complete renovation and mechanical overhaul" of Chase Hall, a B-School dorm, at a cost of $5.6 million--almost half of what is set aside for the entire undergraduate House system from the Harvard Campaign. The changes in Chase follow previous alteration projects in McCulloch Hall in 1978 ($3.5 million) and Mellon Hall in 1976 ($4 million). In sharp contrast...
...Leverett Towers, where the target was a wasteful ventilation system, fuel consumption was cut 17 per cent for the year, Lichten says. Thayer, he adds, recorded a 24-per-cent reduction in fuel use after the installation of better insulation and adjustable valves with thermostats on all of the dorm's radiators. The valves have also all but ended the problem of erratic heating in rooms, Leahy adds, saying he's seen the proof from his University Hall office window. As the seasons changed each year from fall to winter, the heat in the Yard dorms would...
...former resident of Canaday Hall--the newest Yard dorm--conversing with two administrators asked whether his freshman home had "come apart at the seams." One administrator answered that yes, indeed, it had--shortly after its construction. The inside pasteboard walls, the administrator explained, had begun to cave in shortly after Canaday opened...
After four years of dorm living, and a semester braving Cambridge cockroaches off campus. Tanya Luhrmann is looking forward to the elegant lifestyle of a different Cambridge university. At Emmanuel College in Cambridge. England, she will occupy the oak-panelled John Harvard rooms which from part of her De Jersey fellowship. "Apparently," she says, "it means having people over for coffee...