Rosovsky Wants Another Study

Dean Rosovsky has sanctioned his own study of the undergraduate houses, to be completed sometime in October. But unlike the WhitlaPinck report, the study being prepared by Michael E. Porter, instructor in Business Administration, will suggest ways in which each of the three main housing areas--the Yard, the Quadrangle Houses and the River Houses--can be improved and better utilized.

Nor is Porter relying on a 19-page questionnaire. He and his assistant--John T. Scott, a graduate student in Economics--are interviewing students, faculty and staff, and are traipsing around to some of the seamiest places in the Houses.

Although Rosovsky refers to the study as a "king of cost-benefit analysis of our housing system," the work done thus far seems to indicate that the focus of the study will be the problems in the Quadrangle Houses. Last week Scott and South House Committee Co-President Nancy E. Toff '76 spent nearly an hour examining the "more blighted areas" of South House -- decrepit bathrooms, dusty basement study rooms and the like. This week Scott will have dinner with several residents of South House to take suggestions for improvements.