Quality of Life

A Planning Committee on Student Residence, created to consider the changes that coeducation and the Dartmouth Plan of year-round operation may bring in the quality of life at the College, has been hard at work studying a multitude of ideas and soliciting still more from students, faculty, and administrative officers. The committee is headed of Prof. Marilyn Baldwin of the English Department, who was listed as "chairperson" in a February communication to all segments of the College community.

The committee said it would welcome suggestions on all areas, particularly those having to do with dining, faculty-student relations, social facilities, intramural athletics, fraternities, and dormitories. There is talk of a dorm cluster and of a three-part dorm system offering all-male dorms, all- female dorms, and dorms with alternate floors for men and women. TheDartmouth has seized the occasion to revive the idea of a student union (reprinting a 1929 editorial in the process) and one undergraduate critic has asserted that until Hanover itself is more oriented to the entertainment and needs of young people all the talk about improving the quality of life is a waste of breath. All in all, there is no dearth of ideas and the committee, composed of five faculty members, five undergraduates, an exchange coed, three deans, and four other administrative officers, has its work cut out for it.