Word: overcrowdedness
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Students who sit in the aisles of overcrowded lecture halls during classes violate the state building code and create a fire hazard, the deputy chief of the Cambridge Fire Department said yesterday.
Natural Sciences 4a, "Natural Selection and Behavioral Biology," also holds lectures in overcrowded conditions. The enrollment for the course is 523, but Science Center B, where lectures are given, has a seating capacity of only 498.
"There are usually people sitting in the aisles. It's definitely overcrowded," Pat Reagan '79, said last night. "Today it was especially packed," he added.
President Newell of Wellesley deftly sidesteps any responsibility as a college administrator for the excessive number of graduates vis-a-vis appropriate job opportunities [Oct. 11]. Many institutions of higher learning are almost criminal in their behavior, educating students for fields already overcrowded instead of discouraging them.
Although Transkei's population is presently just over 1.7 million, the South African government has assigned over three million to the homeland. If the rest of the population should ever claim a right to Transkei residence, the result would be disastrous: in 1972, the Transkei was already so overcrowded that...