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...responsible for administering and enforcing the parietal rules in the Houses? This is an inconceivable position. The application of an absolute standard to a request for a change of degree, not of kind, seems to mean that Dean Bender is actually opposed to the principle of allowing students to entertain women in their rooms at any time. If so, then the students are entitled to know this, and to know why a College which believes in the greatest possible freedom for students and faculty in every other regard is opposed to it in this...
Tonight the Faculty Committee on Houses, which includes the seven Housemasters, will meet to consider the important and controversial issue of House deans. The Housemasters will also have before them at the same time a relatively unimportant petition asking for liberalization of parietal rules to allow students to entertain women in their rooms until 11 p.m. on weekend nights...
...extra three hours which we request on two nights in the week would allow a man to entertain a girl respectably without taking her into Boston, and would not jeopardize the good name of Harvard any more than does the present ruling...
...reasons for changing the parietal rules are sound and simple. The high cost of living at the University makes female companionship an expensive luxury, and with no place to entertain his date, the Harvard man is driven to Boston's high-priced cabarets or low-priced dives. Now that room rents have gone up 15% and there is a strong possibility that tuition and board charges will follow suit, the Undergraduate will have to dig even deeper...
Secondly, the University's attitude towards the student is inconsistent. Harvard considers a man mature enough to run his academic career, and yet stands in loco parentis and rules his social life. The undergraduate should be as entitled to entertain women in his room as he is to pick his courses or study when he pleases. If Harvard wants to turn out the "whole man," its week-end paternalism is misplaced...