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These students should be getting a Radcliffe education; although they take the same courses as resident students, the commuters are denied the educational experience of dorm living. Too frequently the commuter's education stops when she puts away her notebook after her last assignment. Moreover, it is very difficult for commuters to participate in extra-curricular activities which would require them to stay in Cambridge late at night or to travel over the weekend...
According to interviews, most unmarried day students would like to spend at least some nights in Radcliffe dormitories. Currently, a Radcliffe commuter receives the same treatment as any visitor not in college. She may stay in the dorm only by arranging to have a resident act as hostess. The hostess is then obliged to pay several dollars for linens (a fee that some interpret as an ill-disguised nuisance charge). The hostess is also responsible for being that her guest obeys rules, and must even after any penalties her guest incurs...
...grumble about not meeting enough new people. Most feel themselves isolated from the mainstream of brick dorm living. Yet an overwhelming majority welcome this isolation. They believe that eating dinner in the dormitories provides ample opportunity for maintaining contact with the residential college while still avoiding the constant togetherness of life in the dorms. It is a pleasure for them to eat the other two meals a day at any convenient time alone or with just a few other people. And besides, it's much cheaper. Most apartment dwellers are saving $100 to $250 a year...
Included in the legislation were recommendations, intended to serve as "guide-lines," about how respective dorm committees should deal with infringements of sign-out rules. "If a dorm is functioning smoothly, they need not regard these," added one member...
Boarders are required to attend religious services two nights a week and the church of their choice on Sunday. Dating is confined to the campus, and limited to two nights a week. Petting is a major offense, and a boy caught in the girls' dorm, or vice versa, is "shipped" (expelled). This is a fate to be feared, for many of the boarding students come from broken families of modest means. "I just love it and wouldn't leave for anything in the world," says one 15-year-old, whose remarried mother sent her to the school because...