amherst alley docs?
client team reports?

• 1962 (courtesy of Bill Collins '65)
• 1974
• 1981 amendment allowing dual Social Chairpersons
• 1982
• 1983 (might be the same as the 1982 version)
• 1997

• 1974 (multiple changes due to dorm going co-ed)
• 1982
• 1983 (might be the same as the 1982 version)
• 1997

Sorted (more or less) by calendar year. But in random chronological order within the PDF file…

The Tech (April 8, 1955)
http://tech.mit.edu/V75/PDF/N16.pdf

“[The] Baker House Committee … next discussed the publication of a dormitory handbook to be distributed to freshmen entering Baker House.”

• Baker Confidential 1958-1959
• Baker Confidential 1963-1964
• Baker Confidential 1965-1966
• Baker Confidential 1966-1967
• Baker Confidential 1968-1969
• Baker Confidential 1969-1970
• Baker Confidential 1970-1971
• Baker Confidential 1971-1972
• Baker Confidential 1972-1973
• Baker Confidential 1976-1977
• Baker Confidential 1979-1980
• Baker Confidential 1980-1981
• Baker Confidential 1982-1983
• Baker Confidential 1986-1987
• Baker Confidential 1987-1988
• Baker Confidential 1988-1989
• Baker Confidential 1990-1991
• Baker Confidential 1991-1992
• Baker Confidential 2006-2007

We're looking for more back-issues…

• 1970
• 1976 - March
• 1982 - Summer
• 1987 - Summer

A PROPOSAL FOR COED LIVING IN BAKER HOUSE FOR FALL 1974
March 12, 1974

• coed_living_proposal.pdf

• Freshman Brochure 1960
• Freshman Handbook 1978
• Freshman Handbook 1979
• Freshman Handbook 1980

Magazine articles about living in Baker House

• Happy Anniversary, Baker House (Architecture Plus, July 1973): Probably one of the most thoughtful articles ever written about not just the architecture of the building, but about the interaction of the building and its residents. Written by Stanley Abercrombie (Senior Editor of Architecture Plus) on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Baker House. This article is definitely worth reading
• "Technodarlings" (Playboy, September 1983): What happens when an unsuspecting reporter for Playboy falls into the clutches of a group of Bakerites who are more than willing to tell him what he wants to hear? You wind up with an article entitled “Technodarlings”, which was in the September 1983 issue of Playboy…
• "Nerd U" (New England Monthly, October 1986): Another reporter for another magazine (New England Monthly) discovers that MIT is really intense, and its students are a little different…
• "Relationships Between Physical and Social Structure in Baker House" (Tech Engineering News, December 1971): An interesting – but somewhat dated (and inaccurate?) – look at the social structure of Baker House was done in 1970 by R. Philip Dowds as a term paper for 11.34 (Psychology of the Environment).
• Aalto's MIT Masterpiece (Metropolis Magazine, December 1, 2003): While the restoration of Baker House has some purists fuming the classic dorm has never looked better. Ted Smalley Bowen
• A Modern More or Less Humane in Architecture Week, by Joseph E. Pollack. Comparison of Simmons Hall and Baker House.

Picturebooks

We're still looking for other (older?) versions…

• 1988-1989: Male
• 1990-1991: Male
• 1990-1991: Female
• 1991-1992: Male
• 1991-1992: Female

• Baker House Trivia Quiz 1999
• Baker House Trivia Quiz 2000
• Baker House Trivia Quiz 2001
• Baker House Trivia Quiz 2002

Baker House Document Archive. Over 4000 pages. Under Construction…