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...current situation leaves the Loebs to conclude that Dudley House will continue to serve as a processing center for transfer students, of whom approximately half may leave every semester. At the same time, they are left to cope with students in annex housing, some of whom keep Dudley affiliation while their roommates go elsewhere. And although admistrators, house officials, and other house masters agree that Dudley House is uniquely able to provide a high level of services for both transfer students and voluntary nonresidents, the Loebs say the strain is too great...
...article on Dudley House and transfer students in your February 25 issue continues your trend of bringing to attention the unique difficulties transfer students face at Harvard. Dave Sugrue eloquently describes the life of a transfer student, a situation I am very familiar with, having myself transferred here in the fall of '86. Though the situation of transfer students has vastly improved in the past year, major problems still exist for them...
...housing issue is paramount among the many problems transfers face. Though all transfer students are offered housing through the affiliated housing policy, much of the housing is located in distant and isolated areas such as Peabody Terrace and Botanical Gardens. As David indicated in his article, these are the "dull edges of the Harvard Community...
This past fall, I was informed that due to overcrowding I would have no chance of moving into my house until next year at the earliest. After hearing this news, I went to University Hall and asked if I would be allowed to transfer to a house that had space. The Housing officer told me that I had not spent the necessary two terms of residence in a residential house to be allowed to transfer interhouse. I was thus stuck with living off-campus for another of my few years at Harvard because I had chosen a crowded house...
...housing policies are frequently very arbitrary and change from house to house depending on the whim of the individual housing officers. My house has the policy of giving transfer students first priority for available housing. David could transfer to a less-crowded house; I couldn...