Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year. Scared by the imminent end of the baby boom, cost-conscious colleges, like airlines overbooking, vastly overaccepted students last spring in an effort to insure enough. When fewer freshmen than usual decided to switch schools at the last minute-coupled with an unexpected back-to-campus movement by upperclassmen newly eager for the convenience of dorms-colleges wound up with too many bodies and too few bunks. Some results: barracks-style living, in which students are forced to double up or bed down in hastily converted storerooms or noisy antechambers...
Even as the dust settles from the controversy surrounding the implementation of Dean Fox's plan to house all freshmen in the Yard, student CHUL representatives said last week they foresee student access to Faculty budgetary data, the closing of the Freshman Union to upperclassmen, the new breakfast plan and pre-freshman year assignment of Houses as the major issues of this afternoon's and future meetings...
...Months later, Frank J. Weissbecker, director of Food Services, sent the group a one-page letter, which most student members found an inadequate answer to their request. The students believed they needed precise financial data to arrive at decisions on the breakfast plan, the closing of the Union to upperclassmen, and the method of sending freshmen to the Houses for occasional meals...
Another item sure to come up for discussion is dean of freshmen Henry C. Moses's ban on upperclassmen eating in the Union. Moses says he banned upperclassmen because of the Fox plan: with freshmen now living in Canaday, where upperclassmen lived last year. Moses projected an increase in the number of people from the Yard who would want to eat in the Union. Disputes over whether the ban has left the Union with excess capacity that might be filled by upperclassmen from the Quad and other distant Houses highlight this discussion...
...bread-and-butter topics facing CHUL this year are topics students perceive will affect them directly. Students throughout the University are watching to see whether CHUL will deal effectively with such topics as the closing of the IAB to upperclassmen, the breakfast plan, and pre-assignment. Organizers of the two fledgling student advocacy groups are watching to see whether CHUL can reform itself and provide an adequate forum for the expression of undergraduate opinions. It remains to be seen whether CHUL members, trying out their wings, can secure a stronger position in the University decision-making process