[1453] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Article on Fenway House in Sunday Globe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura G Dean)
Tue Sep 16 11:53:30 2003
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:16:28 -0400
From: Laura G Dean <lgdean@MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <87znh4j108.fsf@everett.mit.edu>
David Z Maze <dmaze@MIT.EDU> writes:
> In addition to the athletics article, the City Weekly section in the
> Boston edition of the Globe had an article about Fenway House:
>
> http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2003/09/14/mits_fenbeings_search_for_their_house_identity/
>
> Choice quote:
>
> "Fenway House is one of the cheapest living groups.... But an MIT
> student-housing crunch has forced the group to stop considering
> freshman applications for the home's 14 single- and multi-person
> bedrooms."
>
> I wish somebody had *told* us that there was a housing crunch, and
> that's why MIT refuses to use the available off-campus FSILG housing
> for freshmen...
I'm trying, and failing, to figure out how that could possibly
make sense. On the other hand, it's nice to see the Globe talk
about MIT housing without mentioning Scott Krueger, so hey.
Laura
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