Volunteers to Fill Sophomore Places In Yard Next Fall

No members of the Class of 1977 will be forced to live in the Yard against their will next year.

Bruce Collier, programmer for the Housing Office, said yesterday that more than the required 125 future sophomores have requested rooms in the Yard.

The new spaces to be filled will open when Canaday Hall is completed next September. If Canaday is not finished on time, incoming freshmen from the metropolitan Boston area will have to commute, Collier added.

F. Skiddy von Stade '38, dean of freshmen, guaranteed single rooms and affiliation with one of their first six choices for upperclass Houses to those sophomores who will live in the Yard. Several freshmen said yesterday that these "fringe benefits" had prompted their choice.

Collier said the male-female ratio of next year's Yard sophomores will reflect the sex ratio of applicants, which remains to be tabulated.

Collier said that freshmen will receive housing assignments March 29.