During the winter we also became acquainted with the idiosyncrasies of the building's heating system. People on the fourth floor shut their radiators completely off and were still sweltering--we were opening windows in January. Meanwhile, people on the first floor were chilled with their radiators on full-blast.

Finally, when I returned to 29G in the afternoon last Monday, I discovered a great deal of yellow CAUTION tape around one side of the door way, and a construction crew tending a large hole outside. When I entered the elevator, I saw a sign that read, "Important: Due to a leak in the main water supply, the water will be shut off until further notice." How quaint.

Little can be done about most of these problems. The building can't be immediately overhauled, and it can't be put into the Yard. But the ridiculous dining regulations can be fixed.

We are in rather curious position, as the only Harvard students differentially excluded from interhouse dining. Generally, either a house has interhouse dinning, or it doesn't; it doesn't have interhouse for some people meeting specific criteria and not for others. For those of us on the fourth floor, we are the only students at Harvard who cannot eat at North and Cabot through the month of April. If we have friends in these houses, we cannot eat with them. Moreover, we cannot even eat with our friends from different floors of 29G.

If we wish to eat at the Quad with some Yard first-years, they must eat in our specific house, even though they, unlike us, have the freedom to eat at any of them.

March was house-touring season, during which first-years like to eat at different houses to see what they're like. We could not eat at Cabot or Currier in March.

Students living at 29 Garden Street already suffer from a kind of stigma; few Yardlings are willing to make the trek to visit their friends, and if we're with friends at night in the Yard, we have to worry seriously about getting home safely.

These kinds of differential eating privileges separate us further, and even separate us from our fellow Garden-Streeters.

On behalf of everyone at Garden Street, I note that the current system is adding insult to injury, and ask that it be stopped.