After 14 years in Adams House, the peer counseling group Contact must vacate its offices in G-entry by the end of today in order to provide space for a house computer lab.

Contact provides anonymous counseling to lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender and straight students on issues of sexual orientation and sexuality.

House Master Robert J. Kiely said the new lab's six computers and one printer will address a long-standing house need.

"More and more Adams House students have said 'we are suffering because we don't have a computer lab," Kiely said.

Adams currently has a small center with two computers.

But some feel emotional concerns should supersede a academic needs.

"I feel that it is a very sad time when computer space is more important than human services," said Nadja B. Gould, a clinical social worker at University Health Services (UHS) and one of Contact's two supervisors.

Contact is still searching for a new location, and the two co-directors-who asked to remain anonymous because of their work as confidential counselors-said they are worried about finding a new office in time to host clients immediately after Spring Break.

Contact will not be open to students tomorrow.

"We've been looking for space continuously since October," said one of the group's co-directors, who is a senior. "We haven't found a suitable space."

While Kiley said Adams has been honored to house Contact since its inception, he said he believes the entire College needs to share responsibility for student groups.

"It's Adams House who started it and staffed it," he said. "It's a College-wide group. It could move around from place to place."

The co-directors said the House administration did not handle the situation well.

"We're just angered and shocked at the way we were treated by the House Master," said the senior co-director. "It would have been nicer to get a much longer notice then we did."

He said Kiley first asked Contact to leave the House last October, giving them until December, but the group asked for an extension.