Friday. October 26.1979
University Daily Kansan
9
Living groups shunned
By DIANE SWANSON
Staff Reporter
One night in 1970, Jeffrey Goudea a 1972 KU graduate, listened to a news report of the United States bombing Cambodia in an escalation of the Vietnam War.
She went downstairs to breakfast the next morning to discuss the latest event of the war with her sorority sisters.
"They weren't even aware it had happened," Goudie recalls today. "I realized the security I lived in limited my personal resources, and from the values the sorsory represented."
She decided to move out of the sorority house and into an apartment.
Gudie's decision to leave the organized atmosphere of the sorority house in favor of a more private environment through apartments living was typical of the attitude toward organized on-campus housing in the late 60s and early 70s, Friend's residence of residential programs, said recently.
A SEARCH FOR independence seemed the primary motivation behind the students' desire to shuun housing groups, McEhlene said.
But today, that attitude has changed, as more and more students seek openings in residence and scholarship halls and fraternities and sororities, he said.
In February 1969, one out of every five residence hall rooms was empty. Today, in residence hall rooms are occupied. In 1970, nine units were approximately 89 percent full, but by 1972 they were only 80 percent full. To obtain statistics from the office of housing
In 1989, a 450 of a total 728 spaces in eight residence halls were filled. In 1973, this figure fell to 3,173. Today, the figure has risen to 4,674.
ALL 400 living spaces in the space
scholarship halls were filled in 1989. This figure rose to 433 in 1973 and is now down to 400 again.
Sororites housed 652 members in 1964, but in 1999 they housed 654. Today they hold 838 women. Fraternities housed 1,436 men in 1976, only 1,287 in 1974 and 1,439.
McElhenie said he thought the breaking away from organized living units was one immediate way in which students could learn to live independently and institutions established long ago.
"There was a new sense of privatism in the late '60s," he said. "Students' rights were stressed on, and there was this prevailing belief that you could trust I own over 30."
McElienw was an associate in the dean of men's office in 1969.
ALTHOUGH MOVING out of a residence hall or fraternity house may not have been as significant as the burning of the Military Academy, but it was the Vietnam War or the staging of siblings at Strong Hall in rejection of authority, fear and dissatisfaction with the way things were.
Cindy Murray, a KU student in the late
cobs and early '70s, lived in a residence hall
at the University of Missouri in
1968. She said she thought she had more
"traditional attitudes than many students
"I wanted a homier atmosphere and a sorority was more conducive to studying," she said. "I also had more in common with them. I am still friends with many of them."
Another sorority member of the late 1985' Lydia Balet, a Tannahille adviser, said she enjoyed sorority life because it allowed her to be in group while still maintaining her individuality.
"IT DID NOT make me feel conformed," she said.
Jim Bloom, 1978 Interfraternity Council president, he thought many of the time accused fraternities of conforming too much to the establishment.
"Fraaternies were just so traditional." Bloom said. "Men had back slack shoes and women had knee socks, for example. The men began to question why they couldn't wear paid dress slacks and shoes."
Many students who enjoyed on-campus living consider themselves unconferenced in conferred to an idea they themselves were accused of being. D Anderson, dean of student services, said, "They are just students."
"They all wore blue jeans and had long hair," he said. "They conferred with their peers rather than with the older established society."
BY THE MID 1970s, KU students and students nationwide began to recover from the turbulent, often radical, days of student unrest and revolt. Statistics showed more students returning to organized housing campus. That trend continues today.
Bob Schuster, a Kappa Sigma fraternity member, said, "There is always someone to do something with."
Celeste Migliazzo, an Alpha Chi Omega member, said "There are always people who care about you."
she enjoyed the residence halls because they taught her to cooperate with different types of people.
And Cathleen Shull, who has lived in three residence halls in the past three years, said
But to attract this new wave of students, organized living groups on campus had to make several changes, some of which were demanded adamantly by the student. The new Student Senate, for example, lobbied for all the residence and scholarship halls.
IN ADDITION, new programs were launched to aid individual development, and staff training on appropriate housing government. The University Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct was passed. As inflation rose, it became more economical to live on campus.
Today, residence halls have more students than they can properly house at the beginning of each semester. Scholarship halls receive more applicants from inbound students than they can make room for in the halls. Fraternities and sororites are filled to capacity.
McElhene attributs the change to 'students who are more career- and goal-oriented than others, who can mosphere with others who have similar interests so that they can draw upon them' (12).
education for "a mess of pottage" called student rights. And there were students who their minds on their driving and their ability to pay for the term risks to jeopardize their long-term goals.
PRECISELY BECAUSE the left of 1969 had a complement of right and center, the year was one of challenge. Of decision. Of effort. Of importance, and that's why we wartake it.
If any single image of 1969 persists, it is that of confrontation. When my classmates today ask about that year, it's the conflict they ask about.
I think it's important to remember that large-scale confrontation wasn't the rule when we were there. We burnt Union burning and the student body voting to cancel the semester, it looked as if things were going to come to a halt.
Those confrontations were frightening. They were the heart of the news, and they are what today's 39-year-old know about.
BUT MOST confrontations were the small, private, daily ones, and they left a lasting legacy. It was almost impossible without being confronted by a leaflet, a literature tale in one's path, the chance to embarrass or harass a speaker, a rally or a march.
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Those confrontations brought choices. They brought soul-searching, if only to entertain a possibility and then reject it.
In October of 1979, however, it is all too easy to avoid confrontation—and hence, decisions—and hence, soul-searching. They are active people on this campus. But they are slimming down, like a prize more mushroom secretly growing beneath a pile of leaves and moss.
KU 198 INN had a vibrant atmosphere. He was a great teacher of mathematics, but they also engaged in discourse, and that had a direct bearing on what was going on outside the campus walls. That was an important part of his life.
Explanations for the change are fairly simple. We looked outward in 1989 because we were afraid. The draft was an immediate threat to our future. In contrast, the complex ties that bind, to most women
It united people who might otherwise have had little cause to join hands.
When the draft and the war faded, so did the visibility of many activists.
There are issues of equal magnitude today, nuclear power among them, but they are also of great importance or close to home. No one is using the compulsive attention as they might have 10 years ago. And when it does emerge, 1979 would be a great day for predictable nature. It lacks spontaneity.
Then, if a student wants a metamorphosis as part of his KU experience, there'll be plenty of raw material for spinning the cocoon.
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