Reduce enrollment before building new dorms

Judging by his letter to the editor ("Ice rink proposal is a bad idea," 2/8), Marc Percher strongly believes that "the only solution to the housing crisis" is the building of a new dorm. This is not inherently correct. Tufts has reduced its undergraduate population in significant numbers before, notably in the late '80s when we went from around 4,800 down to the more reasonable 4,400 of the early '90s. Reducing enrollment is one admirable solution to housing crises, especially since we have a long history of building dorms to alleviate the housing crisis, but instead using the new dorms to increase student population.