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MICHIGAN'S   NUMBER   ONE   COLLEGIATE   WEEKLY
s Women's Rules Change
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Eliminates Hours for Seniors,
Those Over21 on Weekends
By Emory Daniels
Life Staff Writer
Student Senate passed a resolution Monday night that
would eliminate, hours for senior women and women
Al on Friday and Saturday nights.
The resolution will be sent     —	
over
to Dr. Judson W. Foust, university president, Faculty
Senate and to the Executive
Housing Board.
The resolution did not apply to week-nights and Sunday evening and was for women living in residence halls
with a clause being added
that, "This privilege may be
granted off-campus house
holders to those eligible."
In order to be eligible for
the prviilege of non-hours, according to the resolution, women must have attained senior status  or  the  age  of 21-
Two-Act
Starts
Play
Tonight
JOHN HARPST didn't really hit Russ
Baker but Don V/ennsten looks as though he
would approve of such action in this
scene
(LIFE Photo by John Carroli)
from a rehearsal of "The Gazebo," being
presented tonight, tomorrow night and Monday night in Warriner auditorium.
Bedore Cites Housing
Policy in Senate Meeting
By  Emory
Life  Staff
Daniels
Writer
In h i s president's message
to Student Senate Monday
light, James Bedore, student
body pj-esident, criticized the
administration's housing policies as antiquated, unjust,
ridiculous and absurd.
Bedore's main criticisms
*eie the administrations poi-
lcy lequiring off-campus students between the ages of 21-
"25 to live in approved housing, and of the point system
and "j-i^n-in, sign-out" system
for women.
He described as antiquated
and i.bsurd the policy being
followed whereby, "We find
Women getting points for befog in the hall without shoes,
for not having the waste-
baskt. .3 emptied on a spot
("neck, for having a number
jjf bc.ks spread on study
desks rluring surprise room inspections, etc."
''I-dies and gentlemen of
we Senate, are we running a
Prison or a university?" Bedore asked, "It is much worse
jnan tne little girl getting her
nSnds slapped and being sent
*° bed without dinner. To
Knew this type of thing can
happen in our university for
« points should make us all
shudder —it is degrading to
we student body, indeed, the
name of our university!"
Bed ore Questioned the logic=
having women sign-out on
the basis thatUheir parents
""el-it phone and not know
wheie to find them. "It seems
J°'e thin a little peculiar
that the University is not so
concerned about men's par-
ents calling," Bedore said.
., n is obvious to any mtel-
"gent observor that the facade
of
maintained by the University
cannot be true. The real reason must necessarily be protecting a woman's chastity
from male agressors by keeping the women locked up
after 11  p.m."
"The rational of the University doesn't seem to take
note of the fact that if one of
its women students wished to
commit an act which the Uni-
versity considers improper,
she would be able to do it
some time before 11 p.m. The
University does not seem to
acknowledge that you do not
teach morality by forbidding
immorality."
Bedore stated that the administration was actually
punishing women students for
what they might do and not
for what they have done and
asked, "are we going to teach
morality by example and have
principles because students
believe in them, or are we going to attempt to teach this
morality by policing immorality?"
On off-campus housing, Bedore said that since the state
allows a person of 21 to vote
and run his own life, then a
university  should  also.
To back up his argument,
Bedore quoted from Dr. John
T. Rule, Dean of Students at
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, who said, "To be
truly effective, the college
mus"t make the assumption
that its students are mature,
and then deal with their
lapses into immaturity in manure ways.. It must 'grant its
students the privileges that
responsible adults enjoy and
be willing to endure student
protests when the offenders
are punished."
Public Act Students
Should File Report
Students under Public Act
245 must now complete a financial need report. This report is to be turned in at the
admissions office before the
end of May. Notification regarding approval or d i s a p -
proval will be mailed by the
end of June.
This has no bearing for
students under .federal laws
634 and 550, according t o
Austin J. Buchanan, director
of admissions.
See pages 6 and 7
For Life Coverage
Of Butler, Barnett
Alec Coppel's play "The
Gazebo," a two-act mystery-
comedy, will be presented tonight, tomorrow and Monday
at 8 p.m. in Warriner auditorium.
J. Alan Hammack, Speech
department, is directing this
humorous and suspensful play
and has designed the sets.
Assisting Hammack'in the
direction of this production is
Loraine Leis, Saginaw sophomore, while Eugene Monroe,
Mount Pleasant senior, is
stage manager.
Russ Baker, Detroit senior,
plays the lead role of Elliott
Nash, the T.V. writer who has
to plan a murder in order to
do away with his wife's blackmailer. He encounters many
problems — one of which
occurs when his wife Nell,
played by Mary Jean Millick,
Romeo senior, buys the gazebo.
Brian VeenHuis, Flushing
sophomore, plays the role of
Harlowe Edison, assistant district attorney, whose friendship with Elliott adds to the
confusion.
Others in the cast are Sue
Grannis, Jon Harpst, Lelant
Moffatt, Larry Serrell, Donna
Sherry, Jim Telfer, Robert
Walker, Don Wennsten and
Lorene Whitman.
The proceeds from "The
Gazebo" will be used to set
up a Fred R. Bush Memorial
Scholarship Fund.
years and be free from any
type of probation.
If Senate's recommendations
become official, each dormitory would choose the operational plan best suited to its
needs. One of the plans discussed in Senate was that a
senior women who was out
after the door was locked
could call another senior in
the dorm who would get a
key and unlock the door.
Another plan would be to
have women appointed to
come around periodically and
remain at the door for a period of .five minutes to unlock
the door when necessary.
The resolution was reported
out of student affairs and welfare by its chairman, James
Hasselback, senior class. Hasselback had a clause in the
original' motion that "girls
must have received written
permission from their parents," to stay out past 1:00
a.m.
Hasselback explained that
he included this clause so Senate could go on record as opposing it. The clause was deleted.
When the motion was
brought up for a vote, Robert
Gaunt, Washington Court, objected because he wanted time
to gather information for an
informed vote.
After the motion passed
over Gaunt's dissension, Gaunt
said that, "It has been implied
that I am against progress. I
have never been against progress but only against hasty
movements. I am against railroading legislation and that is
what this looked like."
In his report, James Bedore,
student body president, informed Senators that the JFK
Memorial will be left hanging
in the air until a memorial
book is sent from Boston but
that the project will get going
as soon as the book arrives.
Bedore passed out copies of
the judicial section of the proposed student body constitution which may be considered
at next Monday's Senate
meeting. Bedore stated that
the judicial section was "the
heart and soul of this constitution. This is the main reason why the constitution was
revised."
TERRY McDERMOTT, Winter Olympics
gold medal winner, jokes with Hayes Jones,
1960 United States Olympic hurdler, before
• (LIFE Photo by Tom Needels)
the Olympic Fund Raising Jam Session here
last Monday night.
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