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Leslle Guy '51 of Gilman House and Binghamton, New York; freshman class treasurer; Athletic Association; secretary, Interfaith Council ('48-'49); house committee ('48-'49); dorm-commuter committee...
Richard E. Kronauer 3G, president of the Council, attacked the rise in rents in the old graduate dormitories from a yearly average of $252 to $286 in 1950-51. Its group added that average dorm rates were as high as typical rooming house rates...
...dorms were built, Trottenberg said, with attention paid to inexpensive maintenance, but he pointed out that there are basic expenses, such as maid services, which always make dorm rates high. In setting prices, the University cannot separate, he said, operational expenses of the old and new graduate halls. Therefore, the rates of the two types are integrated...
Outside rooming houses, George Minkin '41, assistant dean of the Law School, observed, make little allowances for depreciation and maintenance so that there will always be rooms at prices below dorm rents. However, the University, he said, must always supply decent living quarters...
Neither man would name the worst mannered dorm, although they recalled beer-can and water bombardments in several. But these have been at a minimum this year. Weld, they agreed, is the most quiet...