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Since the beginning of the fall semester, Dorm Crew has suffered from a shortage of workers, said Robert Wolfreys, Dorm Crew's supervisor. Though there have been shortages in the past, "the effect is far more dramatic this year," he said.
"I think it's a combination of [the financial aid increase] and higher-paid job opportunities for students," he said.
Wolfreys also said that there are more student organizations now than ever before, taking up more and more of prospective Dorm Crew members' time.
Both Wolfreys and Stec said that the outsourcing of bathroom janitorial work in Leverett may lead to similar measures in other upper class houses, especially given that Dorm Crew's lacks workers campus-wide.
An semi-autobiographical account of director Barry Levinson's (Rainman, Good Morning, Vietnam) childhood in Baltimore, Liberty Heights is the fourth in his series of Baltimore pictures, following Diner, Tin Men and Avalon. Not failing the critical success of those earlier films, Levinson's latest offering is an incredibly tender...