Women stage nation-wide fight for later closing
Women students at the nation's colleges and universities are gradually gaining the same social privileges that men have long enjoyed.
As college administrators eliminate long-standing housing regulations, women students are staying out longer, visiting previously tabooed men's apartments, and living in off-campus apartments.
Women at the University of Alabama now need only parental approval to gain free visitation privileges in men's apartments. Before March 1, the university forbade women to enter men's apartments under any circumstances.
THE ASSOCIATED Women Students (AWS) at Alabama began their appeals for the rule change in 1958, and climaxed their efforts with a survey of 39 surrounding schools which showed that most similar schools had liberal visitation policies.
In another part of the country, the University of Washington has
announced its decision to eliminate women's hours and allow them to vote on their own hours.
In a similar decision by University of Chicago administrators, students in each house were allowed to submit their own curfews to the Dean of Students for approval. Some of UC's houses requested extension of hours by 330 per cent and, in one case, complete abolition of curfew.
IN SOME INSTANCES, however, women students themselves may turn out to be the biggest obstacle in liberalising closing hours. At the University of Kentucky, for example, women have rejected by six-to-one a proposal for no hours.
Women students under 21 at the University of California at Los Angeles have been freed from curfew regulations. University administrators decided the previous policy was inconsistent with the school's statement to entering students that they will be treated as adults.
Not all appeals for women's
social privileges are as orderly, however. Irate Stanford University residence hall women organized a ten-day postponement of rent payments in support of off-campus housing for women.
NOT ALL WOMEN are fighting the same curfew rules either. Women students at Duke University, for example, have been allowed a 2 a.m. curfew white freshmen women at OU are struggling for a 10 p.m. closing.
Although men at Oklahoma have no hours, coeds must be in by 9 p.m. A proposal urging 10 p.m. closing for freshmen women was presented by the AWS as a compromise between those wanting to retain the 9 p.m. hours and those wanting 11 p.m. hours.
Some progress is slower, however. Women at NU were recently granted an additional hour past closing on certain nights. Only women who have not violated any AWS rules or received late minutes during the semester are granted the bonus.
12 Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 15, 1967
Official Bulletin
TODAY
La Cercle Francais: mercredi 15 mars a 4 h.30 dans la Pine Room. M. professeur White discute Marat et les grandes histoires, et la piece de Weiss.
Alpha Chi Sigma Daines Memorial
Lecture at 7 p.m.
Kansas Room, Union
Classical Film, 7 & 8 p.m. The
Faces of the City
Urban Women's Club Style, Show
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Univ. Women's Club Style Show, 8 p.m. Union Ballroom.
Amer. Soc. of Civil Engineers, 7-30 pm Rav Golly chief sanitary engr for Smith & Loveless. Cottonwood Room, Union.
Faculty Recital, 8 p.m. Paul Tardif,
plano, Swarthout Recital Hall.
TONIGHT at THE RED DOG INN THE BLUE THINGS-Girl's Night Out
Fri. - THE DALTONS-Free TGIF! Sat.-Eric Kraft and the Signets
For Used Cars with The Student In Mind See WAGNER MOTORS 810 W.23rd