Plea to Pusey Increases Heat in Weld Hall South

Freshmen can still appeal to the President of the University, as two freshmen with poor heating can testify. Two Yardlings wrote a letter to President Pusey to protest the "chronic lack of heat" in South Weld, and by the next day, the Buildings and Grounds Department had installed new heating facilities in the dormitory.

Michael R. Milano and Gerald M. Amero wrote in behalf of the residents of Weld South that the low temperature in their rooms between 9 p.m. and 9 a.m. was "conducive to colds." The next day, two engineers placed a thermograph in the yardlings' room, which measured the heat in the room, and three days later a new thermostat was giving more heat to Weld.

Before writing the letter, the two freshmen had consulted their janitor, from whom they received no aid. They then decided to write President Pusey, asserting, "since we freshmen were advised that if at first we have no success with Harvard hierarchy, we should try and try again."

The letter was given to Arthur D. Trottenberg, manager of operating services, who directed two engineers to investigate the freshman complaint. After installing the thermograph, they checked the instrument daily and found that the temperature in the room went down as low as 59 degrees.

The two engineers decided to install a new thermostat, the effectiveness of which they later checked with a new thermograph, which showed the new average temperature of the room to be about 70 degrees. Milano and Amero have since reported that the room has been too hot at times since the new thermostat was installed.

Other residents of the Yard still have complaints about poor heating, however, complaints about poor heating, however. Julian T. Baird '60 complained to the Freshman Union committee two weeks ago that the heating in Matthews is deficient. Baird discussed the problem with J.D. Connors, supervisor of care-taking who told him that "there was a possibility" that the steam system might be turned off later than midnight.