<p>Across the Midway isn’t really much farther from the main quad than Max Palevsky. It’s just that it’s open space instead of a library in between. While I not as horrified by the looks of Max P (at least it doesn’t look like a cinder block that fell off the truck [the Reg]), it is horribly designed for the house system. The university know this and is planning to make sure that the new dorm is built to facilitate housing communities. Also, upper-class quotas were abolished for next year, so it seems they may really be serious about creating communities of different-year students in all dorms.</p>
<p>Having so many more students living across the Midway will definitely be a change. I would guess that 98% of the study body has never been south of Burton-Judson.</p>