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Nassau Hall feels it must find a more practical solution. This will probably be the New Chandler Green student center which officially opened this fall. In this converted library Princeton hopes it has part of the answer to its underclass problem. Not allowed in clubs until their junior year, the underclassmen have had no place to entertain guests or cat with the faculty on the campus. This center with its restaurant, recreation room, and lounging alcoves was completed this fall for just this purpose...
...group plans to investigate all phases of undergraduate life, ranging from underclass curriculum, admissions, and the dormitory system, to perennial undergraduate gripes over parietal rules, compulsory chapel, and the car ban. These rules have gotten a "new look" for years, but in its present frame of mind, the University wants assurances that they are sound...
Since Heath's report many steps have been taken to alleviate these problems of the underclass years. The Campus Center is up, and freshmen are now allowed to participate in extra curricular activities from the opening of college...
Outside of Princeton's academic life, the President's committee still has serious problems, particularly in orienting the new undergraduate to the campus social life. Some of these social problems were pointed out in an article, "The Underclass Years" written by S. Roy Heath, psychologist, and director of the Advisee Project for the Class of 1954 at Princeton...
...would be incorrect to imply that Princeton is facing a totally new problem in its underclass years," Heath wrote in the October, 1953, Alumni Weekly. "But the many sources of information available to the University attest to the fact that somehow since World War II the problem is reaching more serious proportions...