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...times are troubled for Dudley, the house that is not a house. The on-campus center for nonresident students is the focus of complaints from both transfer students and frustrated administrators. The house administration must contend with rumors that Dudley faces closure, and at the same time attempt to place Dudley on an equal footing with the residential houses...
According to College policy, Dudley House's purpose is to serve the needs of non-residential students, and this involves providing for a group of students whose characteristics and wants have shifted dramatically over the years. Currently the house serves a large number of transfer students, who are required to affiliate with Dudley. Many of these students say they would rather live on campus, and if they are given the opportunity, large numbers of them students move into the residential houses...
...have no choice as a transfer, you're just thrown in with a group of people," says Elizabeth G. Malloy '89, a transfer who recently left Dudley to affiliate with Adams House. "It's sort of a mish-mash of people. It's not really a way to meet people," Malloy says...
...residential houses cannot accommodate extra students, so Harvard has had to find new ways of increasing the student body without upping the residential population. And the solution has been to accept more transfer students, deny them guaranteed college housing and ask them to affiliate with Dudley House. The number of transfer students has risen dramatically from a few dozen 10 years ago to more than 100, and these late-comers to Harvard now make up more than half of Dudley's undergraduate population...
...step solved the College's crowding problem, it created new dilemmas. Dudley House gained a large group of new students who did not ask to be affiliated with Dudley and were unhappy in the house. The house administration currently has to expend a great deal of energy toward integrating transfer students into the University. But the effort often seems wasted because more than half of the transfer students switch their affiliation to a residential house once their mandatory term in Dudley ends...