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Pert, lank-haired Linda LeClair, 20, from Hudson, N.H., enrolled as a freshman at Manhattan's Barnard College in 1965. Soon afterward, she met Peter Behr, a Columbia University freshman from New York City, at a dormitory dinner. Romance blossomed, and when Linda became ill and had to drop out of school a few months later, the couple moved into a West Side apartment together. Last year, still living off-campus with Peter, Linda resumed her studies...
...many, in fact, that the New York Times last month decided to run a story on students' light-housekeeping arrangements. To a reporter for the paper, Peter and Linda freely explained that they began living together because they regarded marriage as "too serious a step." As for Barnard's strict housing regulations, which require that noncommuting students under 21 live in supervised housing unless they have live-in jobs, Linda explained that she had simply given the college a false address where, she told the school, she was employed as a maid...
Victorian Drama. That neat little lie was too much for Barnard. Although the Times did not use Linda's real name in its story, the school had no trouble identifying her, and promptly charged her with violating the residence regulations. "I'm old enough by law to live anywhere and with anyone without my parents' permission," said Linda-and promptly turned the charge into a crusade for cohabitation. She and Peter, a draft resister who has dropped out of Columbia, began cranking out mimeographed leaflets calling the case a "Victorian drama." They also distributed questionnaires asking other...
...Meyers into conceding that if the LeClair family lived within the 50-mile commuting limit, the college would have had nothing to say about her housing arrangements. Linda also took issue with the college's right to act in a parental role. She received impressive support from a Barnard philosophy professor and two Columbia religious counselors. Arguing that Barnard's housing rules should be changed, Rabbi A. Bruce Goldman testified that they "cause a great deal of guilt because everybody breaks them...
...openers, Brown, Cornell and Barnard motioned to stay home altogether. They were the smart ones, for the schools that opted to brave Mother Nature got more than they bargained for. "We felt we had to come," said Princeton swim coach Janie Tyler. "It's just that once we did, we had to walk to the Hyatt from Central Square with our luggage because no taxis would pick...