Dudley Turning Away Non-GSAS Students

The master of Dudley House has been turning away numerous graduate students who wish to apply for affiliation with the house, but are ineligible, he said.

Since the beginning of the term, Dudley House Master Paul D. Hanson has had to decline as many as six requests a day from graduate students outside the Graduate School or Arts and Sciences (GSAS) who wish to become members of the house.

All GSAS students and about 110 undergraduates are members of Dudley House, a nonresidential house which provides many conveniences, including a dining hall and common rooms. Currently, students in graduate schools outside GSAS are not permitted to be affliated with Dudley House.

In previous years, Dudley House existed primarily as a residence for undergraduate transfer students, but last spring Hanson decided that this year the house would become primarily a graduate student center.

Because of the change, many students from other graduate schools outside GSAS have been applying to Dudley House, Hanson said. Graduate students "are hearing from friends that good things are happening in Dudley House. They want part of the action," he said.

Hanson said that because of financial and spatial limitations Dudley House will be unable to expand beyond the current 2700 GSAS students and 110 undergraduates.

"We don't take funds that are derived from one student group and give them to another. Our funds are to serve the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and not those in the Graduate School of Design, Kennedy School or Business School," Hanson said.

In addition to financial constraints, Hanson stressed that Dudley House is physically incapable of adding students. Expansion of Dudley House to accomodate the other graduate schools is unlikely, he said.

Dudley House students interviewed concurred with Hanson's description of overcrowding and were generally opposed to expanding Dudley House services. "As far a