To be fair, the members of each existing house will migrate as a community into their new house in North Campus, os the house culture shouldn’t shift radically within a year. The question will be whether they can keep up the same house spirit once they’re not as isolated and they’re now in contact with other student populations (ecology and evolution, anyone?) Most student angst is directed not as much at the closing of the satellite dorms as much as at the changing of house names.
As one Facebook poster put it, the real challenge will be whether North can keep up the quality of Scav competition that its satellite dorm ancestors had exhibited before the move.