Another interesting Maroon article on history of undergrad housing

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I strongly urge all of you to sign up for Maroon newsletter. This is from the latest issue:

https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2018/4/13/unbuilt-uchicago/

Best quote of the day:

“Let undergraduate loafers go anywhere else, especially to Yale and Harvard where swaggy manners and curious accents can be learned easily,” Dodd would later say in 1934, according to Boyer’s report. “Real students should be appealed to and then genuine offerings be easily available. This would mean many graduate students.”

:)) :wink:

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Kudos to the Maroon.

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Interesting.
The University had many, many, many plans that didn’t get built until we got Zimmer who had no qualms about spending millions on construction. It wasn’t just dorms.
http://uchiblogo.uchicago.edu/archives/paper_campus/
There was a master plan completed in 1999 that was as ambitious as it is currently unfollowed. Most notably, it called for slicing through the middle of the reg to create pedestrian paths.