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Adam Goldenberg’s column “Nightmare on Garden St.” (Dec. 16) offers a skewed, injudicious perspective on the opinions of Quad residents and the issues of Quad life. Below are responses to the author’s more flawed points...
...author states that students should deal with the trek to Lamont, yet fails to recognize students who are physically unable to visit Lamont without the assistance of a shuttle. Many of Harvard’s disabled students live in the more accessible Quad houses and cannot, as a consequence, make the 20-minute jaunt to Lamont when they need course materials that were once in Hilles Library. But the author argues that Quad residents should not ask for more on-time shuttles to assist these individuals. After all, he continues, Quad residents should stop complaining about shuttles being late because...
...Unix program I wrote for my roommates so that they could check the day’s dining hall menus,” Malan wrote. Before Shuttleboy, Kevin Davis ’98 had written a shuttle “script” for Quad residents. Malan expanded on that idea, including all possible stops and allowing students to view their favorite routes. “I usually just call,” said Erika M. M. Campisano ’08. “I haven’t used it yet, but I will...
When it comes to devoting energy to improving student life, spending time on non-issues pertaining to “the Quad experience” is a colossal waste. Not only are these concerns trivial, they also affect less than a third of the student population. What I suggest here is not a tyranny of the majority, but rather the common sense realization that it is irresponsible to spend time on Quad-exclusive issues when there are more significant matters at stake, ones whose impacts extend across the undergraduate population. Let’s talk about online transcript requests. Let?...
...take the issue to constituents either informally through discussions or formally through a referendum after the exact costs of the different proposals are known. Current dining hall hours are 7:30-10:00 a.m., 12:00-2:15 p.m. and 5-7:15 p.m. each day, with the three quad houses having 15 additional minutes added to the end of lunch and dinner, according to the HUDS website. Seven of the 12 house dining halls have some form of inter-house dining restrictions—all but Cabot, Currier, Dunster, Pforzheimer, and Mather...