“I don’t think there’s anything terribly out of the ordinary about [the condition of the building], except that it’s a new dean,” she says.
McLoughlin, however, defends the University’s treatment of the Advocate. He says the practically free lease is preferential treatment that few student groups receive, but he notes that no other campus publications can claim as long a history.
“They didn’t have e.e. cummings and T.S. Eliot,” he notes of the poets who graduated in 1915 and 1910.
—Staff writer Joshua P. Rogers can be reached at jprogers@fas.harvard.edu.
—Staff writer Patrick M. McKee can be reached at pmckee@fas.harvard.edu.
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