The insurgents bet that they were thinking longer term than the sated masses. After all, they thought, the battle to reshape the Street would last decades: Students only stay for four years, and new freshmen would have no conception of ...(back to the article)
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Also, demand for regular draw has not diminished ("All draws are oversubscribed this year"). Students are merely signing up for both to hedge their bets and see where they get the best draw time.
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Re: Anonymous The problem is that every room subtracted from the upperclassman housing means one less student in an eating club. The University promised last year in the runup to the 4yr college implementation that upperclass students would never take up more than 250 spots, and thus would not have an effect on the financial viability of the street. The choice made between upperclassman housing and residential college housing is artificially biased, with the university giving out significantly extra floor space per person in the latter to bribe students, so that what would be a quad in upperclassman housing becomes a 3-room double in Mathey. They are then subsidizing this pet project with my housing fees that should go towards upperclassman dorms, which largely haven't been renovated in years and for which the university has no plans to renovate for the next 10 yrs at least.
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The university finds out how many upperclassmen are interested in drawing into residential colleges. It then adjusts the number of rooms available in the four year colleges in order to satisfy demand. These rooms are subtracted from regular upperclassman housing because the regular draw has correspondingly diminished. What exactly is the problem here?
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I really don't understand why Whitman is looking for more dorms to engulf... shouldn't they have planned for this high demand and built a bigger building??? Why should independents pay the price for this lack of foresight?
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