Former Director of Media Relations Barbara Porter in a May 28, 1999 Washington Business Journal article commenting on HOVA room 723, which served as a lookout post for the Watergate burglars:
“The room will remain intact as a shrine to the past.”
Assistant Dean of Students Mark Levine on new plans for the historic HOVA room:
“At the beginning of the year (the University) was looking at all available housing options and we thought to turn it into a student room.