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Dudley House Residents Urge Improved Services

By Nina E. Sonenberg

Dudley House representatives this week presented President Derek C. Bok with a report outlining several perennial criticisms about the University's treatment of off-campus undergraduates.

The 16-page report, which revealed results from a recent poll of 214 Dudley students, offered three suggestions to improve long-strained relations between the University and off-campus residents:

.that the house's Lehman Hall cafeteria--which is open to the public for breakfast and lunch and usually serves more non-Dudley affiliates than house members--remain open for dinner and become more private;

.that transfer students be given on-campus housing upon arrival, rather than being assigned to the College's only non-residential house; and,

.that the University, as an alternative, devote a centrally located residential facility [such as Claverly Hall] to house transfer students.

Bok requested the report after a speech earlier this year at Dudley's 50th anniversary dinner, when he met with a barrage of questions and criticisms from students.

Dudley House Committee Co-Chairmen Scott D. Easton '88 and Evan M. Supcoff '88 said that although members of Dudley House at times have conflicting ideas about the role of the house, most agreed that Dudley would benefit from the improved sense of community the

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