Housing: Trying to Solve the Problems

The decision to convert Canaday Hall into an upperclass dorm next year will result in increased overcrowding of freshmen dorms. Dean Whitlock said yesterday.

Whitlock said that approximately 65 freshmen will be crowded into remaining Yard and Union dorms.

Burriss Young, acting dean of freshmen, said yesterday that Holworthy and Grays Halls will probably bear the brunt of the overcrowding, with a couple of other suites in the Yard taking extra people.

Young said most of the overcrowding will be alleviated by changing rooms that are now triples into quads.

Young said the number of freshmen living at Radcliffe will not change, but will stay at 25 per cent of the Quad population.

Young called the situation "a bad scene, but any crowding is bad."

Bruce Collier '67, assistant dean of the College for housing, said Canaday will be the only Yard dorm housing upperclassmen next year.

Collier said the decision to convert Canaday into an upperclass dorm is "not more than a one-year decision."