As Harvard Houses threaten to overflow at the rafters, Genevieve Austin, assistant dean of students, has offered floaters the option of moving to Radcliffe.

Several rooms opened up across the Commons as students requested leaves of absence early in the term. Those floaters choosing to move will live at Radcliffe at least a year and may have the possibility of a permanent assignment.

Austin made clear however that the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life will make the final decision on House affiliation.

The overflow situation varies from House to House as do the temporary solutions. Eliot, filled to capacity, has been forced to room some sophomores in double-occupancy bedrooms.

Kirkland, Leverett, and Lowell have only one or two students still unassigned to rooms, while Mather and Adams are still experiencing a tense population explosion.

At Dunster, 17 students have been allowed to move off campus, and one resident was temporarily move to Leverett. "He was upset," Barbara Stone. Dunster House secretary said yesterday, "that he had to move to another House, but what meant more was the bedroom of his own."