Word: curfews
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Saigon, 11 p.m. The bars are closed, the cinemas out, the curfew on, and the TV set dark-but it's too early to go to bed. What to do? For the thousands of Americans in the city's apartment buildings and hotels, the problem is easily resolved. They can always go up to the roof and watch...
...floor, the intruder used his knife to rip strips from a bunk-bed sheet and from a cotton dress, then tied the girls up. Meanwhile, three other nurses who had been out late-Sue Farris, Mary Jordan and Gloria Davy-returned home before their 12:30 a.m. curfew, were surprised by the intruder, and were forced to join his bedroom captives. "There were some light outcries by the girls who came in late, but it wasn't much," said Miss Amurao. "He made them lie on the floor with the rest of us." Before binding and gagging each girl...
Obviously sign-out rules will do nothing except keep the College Council, the alumnae, and every girl's mother happy. As long as Radcliffe can claim it has some kind of curfew rules--and not talk about their substance--no newspaper with prurient tastes is going to snoop around and find out just how permissive those rules are. Radcliffe's reputation for decorum, at least, will remain intact...
Having no curfews may seem to the College Council to be tantamount to free sex, flaunting of the libido, and tramping on the flag. Yet in effect Radcliffe has no curfew now. And no one has offered and justification for retaining all the foolish sign-out boxes and secret envelopes to which Cliffies are subjected. Why doesn't the College just scrap the whole business...
...safety are no longer applicable; having your destination listed on a sign-out card is no protection against muggers, rapists, or perverts in the Common or on Garden St. Nor do sign-out rules preserve chastity or prevent undergraduate affairs, although a few girls argue that having a curfew helps them "make decisions...