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...rule was changed back three years later and then changed again this fall to allow students to switch affiliation after one semester. The current situation may provide transfer students with greater flexibility, but the Loebs say that their student turnover is now too high. "It's just too difficult," Arthur Loeb says...
...Transfer students complain about this situtation because they are given less choice of house affiliation than other students. The College administration has therefore experimented with affiliation rules and introduced special kinds of off-campus housing...
Jewett says, "We thought it was unfair that transfer students were the only ones not given a choice to where they would live." To correct the problem, in 1983 the College changed the rule requiring transfer students to remain with Dudley House until their senior year and allowed juniors to affiliate with other houses if they wished...
...When transfers switch houses shortly after arriving at Dudley, it demoralizes the house tutoring staff and hampers the house's ability to provide social services such as intramural teams and dramatic events, Arthur Loeb says. The College and the Dudley administration have therefore begun looking for ways to make the house more attractive to transfer students...
After long negotiations, the College this fall opened the Lehman Hall dining room for dinner and began subsidizing off-campus housing in nearby Harvard-owned buildings. While these innovations have mitigated some transfer students' complaints, they have also altered the nature of the house, say the Loebs. "Annex housing makes us a half-residential house," Arthur Loeb says...