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MIT's The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Pleasant, partly cloudy, 42°F (6°C) Tonight: Becoming cloudy, 30°F (-1°C) Newspaper Tomorrow: Possible snow, 33°F (J 0c) Details, Page 2 Volume 119, Number 6 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Friday, February 19, 1999 .GSC l\lonnts Email Campaign .Protesting Dormitory Delays By Jane Yoo Housing and Community Affairs cent. Students living off campus and Karen E. Robinson Committee. have to pay for Internet access, 'l' STAFF REPORTERS laundry, and extra storage, In response to fears that the pro- Off-campus housing a problem Davenport said: posed construction, of a new gradu- Graduate students want the "Finding off-campus housing is ate dormitory on the corner of administration to "help develop a a nightmare," said GSC Housing ~ Sydney and Pacific Streets may not sense of community among gradu- and Community Affairs Committee be funded in the near future, the ate students by providing 'affordable Chair Kelly Davenport. Graduate Student Council recently housing alternatives close to cam- According to Hohnke, the city of .., mitiated an email campaign to "let pus," said GSC president Brian 1. Cambridge would also like to see the administration know that [gradu- Schneider. MIT bui Id more graduate student ate students] were concerned that MIT graduate students regularly housing. "MIT, by not providing the project was slipping in the spend up to 50 percent of their adequate housing, is putting 'undue " administration's priorities," accord- income on housing, while the pressure on the low-income market ing to Carsten D. Hohnke, GSC Department of Housing and Urban treasurer and past co-chair of the Development recommends 30 per- GSC, Page 21 'Sig Ep Reorganized by National, 'Majority of Brothers Kicked Out .
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