The Tenements of Haaaahvaaaahd

Several students said that Harvard’s high sticker price makes the problem more frustrating.

“As Harvard students you pay so much money to come here,” Gupta said. “But I don’t understand why it’s so difficult to just seal everything off properly and get rid of this problem, because it seems like it’s been there for years.”

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Plattner said his peers are both “traumatized” and “accustomed to” dealing with rodents in their dorms.

“It’s just a fact of life at this point,” he said.

Ed Morrissey

Fun fact: Harvard charges undergrads over $1000 a month this year for rent alone in its dorms. Overall, freshman pay $82,866 a year for tuition, room, board, and fees, which works out to $6900 a month and some change, all to live in conditions that would likely provoke an urban housing authority to punish landlords that allowed these conditions to continue. And apparently it's been going on for years.

Remind me again why people want to attend this school? I mean, between the rats, mice, anti-Semites, and serial plagiarists, it's tough to see the appeal.

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