1. Cabot House exemplifies Harvard's best buzzword--diversity. The House has an exciting mix of creative, active students and a lively tutorial and house staff...The physical facilities may soon be the best on campus (with a little luck and funding). Other favorites mentioned: the rollomatic toaster, movie nights with the VCR, good parties, and the Quad roofs and grounds as "beaches" in the spring.

2. The perennial Quad complaints still apply: that brisk walk to the Yard in the morning and breathing-optional rides in the shuttle bus During the renovations, the house may be in various levels of disarray. However, the conditions in buildings like Eliot (euphemistically called a dorm with "character") make the mess worthwhile. Students also cited "Lake Barnard" during rainstorms, the inevitable "Quad Moat" after rainstorms, a current wide disparity of housing, shuttle bus speed bumps, and a less-than-stellar salad bar.

3. Cabot House sponsors Cookin', the Friday night campus nightclub, and the new Club Zeus, a Saturday night dance club, in the Cabot Hall basement. The house SCR includes Mike Dukakis and Bill Walton. Cabot also boasts hamburgers on request at every meal, milk and cookies every Sunday night, a spring cricket match, and the "Six-Man Suite."

4. After seniors and juniors pick rooms, the master's assistant holds a new lottery for sophomore picking order within the class. She then integrates the rooming group order with groups' preferences (singles vs. suites, apartments, etc.).

5. Incoming sophomores are assigned big sisters and brothers. Prospective Cabotites are treated as house members, receiving tickets to the spring ball, all house parties and several upcoming get-acquainted functions.

6. Cabot House has no stereotype. In fact this is one of its strongest features, according to most Cabot residents. Cabot is thought of as social and active. This is true, but it's not a very confining stereotype.

7. Myra Mayman attempts many creative projects for the house and sponsors weekly open houses with different cultural themes and food. She is accessible at Friday open houses and five days a week at the Office of the Arts, where she serves as director.

CURRIER HOUSE

Karen Bergreen '87

History Concentrator

New York, NY

1. Diversity and democracy. This house is constantly questioning conventions which might never be questioned in another situation, however each decision to change results from thorough self-education. The house is centrally organized so you don't have to go outside to eat, unless you live at Cogg or Jordan Coops. There are lots of activities in drama, music, politics, etc...

2. Sometimes our constant questions cause friction between groups within the house. But worse...stigma--we have to prove ourselves because the University institutions--including this paper--treat the Quad as inferior. It's a constant battle with a reputation which the administration, organizations, and non-Quadlings perpetuate.

3. There is the Currier House Dance Marathon and house-wide activites like gameshows. In terms of the physical plant, we have great music facilities, excellent bathrooms and good party space.

4. In the spring, rooming groups with rising seniors and juniors are lotteried according to numbers assigned to the block. The largest suites are arranged first, and then the lottery numbers are rearranged after each round. Sophomores submit room preferences in spring and find out next summer.