She added that first-years should enjoy the Annenberg experience while they can because the dining hall is closed to all upper-class students.
Another Adams diner, Bryan Y. Ho ’06, said the new policy “kind of makes us look even more elitist, but there really were nights where there seriously was no place to eat. Sometimes I’d be forced to eat in a friend’s room.”
But first-years who will be joining Adams at the end of March when House lottery results are announced will be welcomed into the community and the dining hall.
First-years assigned to Adams will receive special stickers to affix to their IDs that will allow them full Adams dining privileges.
“We’re getting ready to welcome the newest members to the house,” Palfrey said. “With the new restrictions we’ll really have time to clean up the dining hall and make it sparkle so there will be plenty of room for them.”
Barro said yesterday that the dining hall will still be open to first-years for breakfast.
—Staff writer Wendy D. Widman can be reached at widman@fas.harvard.edu.