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Radcliffe did its best to insulate its students from the complications of adulthood and the real world. Attention was focused instead on "jolly-ups"--the Fifties version of dorm mixers--and on the enforcement of strict parietals by nosy housemothers. Weekends revolved almost exclusively around the activities of the Harvard men. Dates for the big football games were planned weeks in advance in the fall of 1955, despite the team's dismal Ivy League performance. Few remember the details, but a right end named Ted Kennedy (back at school after a year's banishment for some confusion over a certain...
...after a year of living in his Canaday room, Mattlin says that he still feels somewhat left out socially and finds that Canaday is really not an accessible dorm because only four rooms in the 70-plus-room building are accessible without ascending steps. Mattlin says that, as a result, his life is primarily "self-contained" and that he is somewhat envious of the two six-man suites on the fourth floor of his entry. "I'm not saying I want to have 10,000 people in my room, but it's not the same living only with an attendant...
Charlotte A. Lowell, President of the Dorm Council, said yesterday. "This is obviously a compromise," and added. "Hopefully, the Law School will start with this and go on to pass-fail grading for the first year...
...whether they got their first choices or not, most students tried to make the best of it. Some students sported badges reading "Kiss me; I'm going to the Quad." And some future North House residents spent the evening at a keg-party in their new dorm...
...plumbing codes that seem to require separate facilities and changing attitudes among undergraduates, the university has announced that the showers will be resegregated. "With new student populations come new moralities," says Director of Residential Life Marjorie Lenn. Many students are not so sure. A coalition of male and female dorm residents plans to fight the proposed change, anc the student senate has called for a debate on the matter. Complains Student Senator Freeman Woodson, class of '82: "I think the university is trying to kick us back to the Dark Ages." How far back? "To the year...