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...universities this fall, in loco parentis is suffering from rigor mortis...
...loco parentis philosophy of the first part of the administration's rationale--aside from its offensive condescension--is out of place at a time when the president of Radcliffe herself is suggesting the possible elimination of all sign-outs. Girls who are under 18 live in separate dorms and the school does have a certain responsibility for their supervision. But for the college-age girls who come from other colleges--and who, after all, are subjected to at least a potentially selective admission process--the rules are unnecessary and hypocritical. For the few Cliffies who live in the dorms, they...
...apply to live off-campus must be twenty-one. Surely the college does not believe that only a few months' difference in age makes a young woman responsible to live in her own apartment. If students were required to obtain parental permission to live off-campus, its in loco parentis responsibility would not prevent the college from allowing seniors under twenty-one to have their own apartments...
...market where one-hit-and-forever-miss performances are the rule rather than the exception. Eva Boyd is typical. A few years ago, Eva was a 17-year-old maid working for a husband-and-wife songwriting team. On a dare, she recorded one of their songs, The Loco-Motion. It sold more than 1,000,000 copies, and Little Eva, as she was billed, picked up $30,000 and has not been heard from since...
...Spectrum of Freedom. By and large, restrictions are the mark of small, church-affiliated colleges colleges intent on serving in loco parentis, while freedom for students defined roughly as the the rights and curbs of ordinary civil law, is the goal at big, old, and scholastically high-ranking state and private universities...