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...opposite situation exists for freshmen in many Radcliffe dormitories, according to Catherine D. Williston, Dean of Freshmen. The "economy double," a room originally meant to be a single which now houses two girls on bunk beds, can make life difficult for roommates who are not close friends...
...Miss Williston said that her office sees "no point in trying to mastermind" the assignment of freshman roommates too much, since the "very nature of this college and of these students means that the 318 girls in the Class of 1966 are already diversified." She added that Radcliffe girls are likely to be people who can adjust to a range of personalities, and who will therefore be able to get along with any roommate...
...class of '66 also completed a questionnaire on rooming preferences, largely concerned with study patterns, sleeping hours, and smoking. ("Do you think that social activity or study will be more important to you at college?" prospective 'Cliffies were asked. "Very few thought social activity would be more important," Miss Williston reported, "or at least they wouldn...
Both she and Catherine D. Williston, Dean of North House, felt that double reporting would encourage "a community responsibility to make the rules work, and would help the officers to enforce the rules...
...building one common dining room for Moors, Comstock and Holmes, and another for all the other dorms. Unlike those in Harvard Houses, the common dining hall will not be one huge room. The architects are considering dividing the area into alcoves of different sizes, possibly on different levels. Catherine Williston of North House, said, "The area may help us find a more civilized way of dining. In one alcove, a French club could meet; in another, one might have a tete a tete with her boyfriend." Such divisions may help Radcliffe achieve its long-sought goal of intelligent dinner conversation...