To the Editors of the Crimson:
It seems obvious to me that the Crimson deliberately encourages discontent with the Quad. This irritating prejudice showed up again in your extremely biased editorial of March 16, where you discuss "the problem of the Quad Houses' unpopularity" as if it were a terminal disease, and assume, quite unjustifiably, that most freshmen placed the Quad Houses lowest on their lists of housing preferences. As the recent housing survey shows, freshmen do not regard the Quad as a wasteland--on the contrary, the poll ranked Quad houses fourth, sixth, and eighth in popularity. Only the Crimson snobbishly assumes that the barriers are still rampant between the River, the Yard, and the Quad. I suggest that your writers remember that they are purportedly writing for the whole Harvard community, not just the River. Valerie Leman '76
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