During the construction of the new building, staff members used a temporary space next to the Bow and Arrow Pub on Bow Street, rented from the Harvard Cooperative Society.

The space was "low-budget" and "makeshift," according to Walkowitz.

Nevertheless, Walkowitz says reporters and editors continued publishing a quality paper, including coverage of the Harvard presidential search and the scoop that Neil L. Rudenstine would be named president.

The paper, usually published in the basement of 14 Plympton St., had to be printed out-of-house at Charles River Publishing.

Reporters and editors had to "adhere to a tight new system of deadlines in order to close out the paper by 12:45 each night," according to a May 1991 article.

"The move itself was a little rough--mostly because we had to pack up about 75 years of accumulated junk," said then-president Walkowitz in a 1991 interview. "But we've managed to adapt pretty well since January."

However, the article said, problems with the temporary quarters included its lack of any restrooms and its resemblance to a warehouse.

"It's not pretty, but it's serviceable," the article continued.

Moving Home

Happily, the staff moved back into the renovated building in September 1991, after just one term and a summer out of it.

Changes in the new building included larger newsroom and business areas, more capacity for computers and updated technology, modernized photography facilities and handicapped access.

Despite the better spaces and facilities, the new building "definitely lost some of its gritty, real-newsroom atmosphere," Tucker says.

Yet business as usual continued. Under the supervision of Design Editor Dante E.A. Ramos Jr. '93, the now-computerized design facilities gave the paper a modern look with new fonts and a new layout.

The new building also saw updated photography editing equipment and computerization of the business office.

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