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...Off-Campus...
...college housing." One-hundred-thirty-one juniors had applied for the 36 places after spring vacation, so that the residence office was forced to hold a lottery. Although the strikers, most of whom were juniors, had been meeting with administrators for six weeks to argue for more places off-campus, many of them drew. There was no substantive issue or philosophy difference between students and administration, but the quickness bad lots and were not among the lucky 36--which didn't help their case with the administration...
...Radcliffe has been operating a budget deficit of $100,000 each year, which has been made up by dipping into capital, Mrs. Bunting was reluctant to risk a still greater loss. She assured the girls that she and administrative officials were working on economy measures to allow more girls off-campus. "But we will not run a bigger deficit, raise room rates for everyone in the dorms, and lower the standards of dorm living to allow a few individuals to have apartments," she insisted...
...Bunting, in fact, is so convinced of the "educational importance" of apartment living that she has built a provision for it into her long-range plans for the House system. She envisions arrangements which will allow about 150 girls--including commuters, married students, and apartment dwellers--to live off-campus. (About 80 of these, she estimates, will be seniors in their own apartments...
There is evidence, in fact, to suggest that Mrs. Bunting has consistently disregarded wide-spread student opposition to aspects of her project. The bitter protests over the destruction of Gilman House two years ago, last year's furor over flat room and board rates, and the off-campus houses' fight for breakfast subsidies are indications that at least a few Cliffies want an option to the restrictive dormitory living Mrs. Bunting would like to see effected throughout Radcliffe. Girls like the strikers, who are clearly a minority, are afraid that the intimate atmosphere of the small wooden frame off-campus...