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When the students entered Fay House, the Radcliffe administration building, with the intention of speaking with Mrs. Bunting, Britton met them in the hall. He told the students that they had come on a "unilateral invitation" and that Mrs. Bunting had other commitments...
...Britton said that the differential is partly based on the different capacities of house dining rooms. "North House, where the chefs work, has a capacity twice that of either East or South House," he said. When a girl from North House told him that the Holmes Hall dining room is never filled, he said, "That's beside the point...
Demonstrators accused Britton of repeatedly changing his explanation of the differential. "First it's the amount of training, then it's quantity of work, and now it's the number of chairs in the dining room." Ellen J. Messing 72, and SDS co-chairman, said...
...demonstrators maintained that the wage differential is a form of "male chauviaism." Ginny Vogel 70 told Britton, "According to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, this sexual discrimination is illegal." When she and other students asked Britton why all the chefs were men and all the cooks women, he said, "There's a long tradition of male superiority...
After the demonstrators challenged him and Mrs. Bunting to a public debate sometime before Dec. 4, Britton agreed to collect the figures on the number of students acting in each dining room. But he reined to present them directly to a public meeting. "I will give them to Mrs. Bunting, I think that's more orderly," he said...