Word: rga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thursday's meeting, RGA members will vote on a formal proposal to revise the current parietal set-up. But it is unlikely that RGA will ask for both an increase in the total number of hours and for midnight parietals, Julia Curry '69, secretary of RGA, indicated. "We don't want to ask for too much at once and have the whole thing blow up in our faces," she said...
Pressure for midnight parietals has come chiefly from students in off-campus houses who say that their living rooms are too small to accommodate all the couples who wish to use them on Friday and Saturday nights. Should RGA and the College Council approve the midnight parietal option. Miss Curry feels that the larger dorms would be less likely to take advantage of the extension than the off campus houses...
...last time RGA asked for an increase in the total number of parietal hours, two years ago, the proposal was squelched by acting College President Mrs. Helen H. Gilbert. However, at that time RGA was asking for 70 hours per week which was considered an "unreasonably radical" increase. Ethel Silverman '67, treasurer of RGA, said that this year's RGA will almost assuredly have better luck with its proposals, because "they know what they can hope to get away with...
...rules of the library are highly experimental, the RGA felt, and will take a while to work themselves into an equilibrium...
...RGA wants to give the administration time to work out problems which have developed since the library opened, such as overcrowding and difficulty in getting reserve books...