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...Crimson's majority position is inconsistent. On one hand, it correctly presents diversity in House styles as a desirable goal. The Quad has shown that four-year Houses offer several advantages for both freshmen and upperclassmen. These advantages argue persuasively for keeping the Quad Houses as four-year Houses, in part to let these advantages compensate for any perceived disadvantages of living at the Quad...
...House assignment system that ignores student preferences. The advantages that a diverse housing system offers can be fully realized only when students are allowed to choose among alternatives or at least to express a preference. By not giving incoming freshmen a choice of living at the Quad with upperclassmen or offering upperclassmen the choice of living at the Quad with freshmen, the supposed alternative becomes meaningless...
...then benefits by this plan? Not upperclassmen at the Quad--the House Committees of North and Currier Houses have already unanimously voted to oppose the plan. Not Quad Freshmen--they lose the very real advantages of rapid integration into a complex university, superior advising and Hilles Library, for the dubious benefit of "a unified freshman year," whatever that may be. Not sophomores who want to live at the Quad--they may no longer be able to live in the relatively uncrowded housing that has been a major attraction. Not sophomores who don't want to live at the Quad--more...
These issues are: 1) Can the system provide as adequate an advising staff for all freshmen in the Yard as has been provided by the Quad advising staff and the upperclassmen to the freshmen now housed there; 2) If a one-three system is implemented, how will the increased number of affected sophomores and/or juniors react to being placed in a House not of their choosing and perhaps liking (that is, if given a choice between the Yard or an unpopular House, how many of the students would prefer to have the Yard option still viable...
...differences in physical facilities and class composition; (2) the decline in the popularity of the Quad Houses, despite efforts to reverse or to slow the trend; (3) the differential housing and advising arrangements for freshmen, resulting in student perceptions of unlike treatment; (4) the makeshift housing of about 200 upperclassmen and women in rooms distant from their Houses; and (5) a lottery assignment system which is criticized for being neither sufficiently "open" and comprehensible, nor sufficiently "closed" (pre-assignment or no-choice) as to offset the currently lopsided orderings of choice by students...