Living Quarters

It was off-again, on-again Finnegan for Foley House, ne Delta Upsilon, on what house to call home next year.

Foley House, integrated by both sex and race, unconventional by traditional Greek standards, is either a thorn in the side of its Webster Avenue neighbors or an important source of diversity on the street, depending on where one sits.

The first off-again came back in February when the Fraternity Board of Overseers recommended that Foley House, a group comprising relatively few students, move from one College-owned building at 9 Webster Avenue to another at 23 East Wheelock Street, which is being vacated by A.B.C. (A Better Chance), in order to make current Foley House digs available to a larger organization.

Foley members objected strenuously, primarily on grounds that the A.B.C. House offered living arrangements for only 12, inadequate accommodation for their membership, but also to the geographical isolation from the campus.

Then the Committee on Undergraduate Life approved the F.B.O.'s recommenda- tion in essence, with the proviso that suffi- cient funding be found to make the A.B.C. House "amenable" to Foley members.

When $110,000 was made available to renovate the East Wheelock Street property, Dean of the College Ralph Manuel '58 in whose bailiwick such matters generally fall decided to leave the decision to the residents of Foley House: Would they move, freeing the building on Webster Avenue for possible occupancy by the sisters of Kappa Kappa Gamma, next in the queue for housing, or would they stay where they were?

Next, the K.K.G.s and the Foley House members co-sponsored a noon vigil on the Green in support of "a strengthened commitment to find housing for sororities, and about 300 people from all sorts of organizations showed up.

The last we heard, Foley House members decided they liked the old neighborhood too much to leave; the Committee on Undergraduate Life applauded the decision as a contribution to "social and residential diversity"; and the K.K G all that happy about the whole affair in doubt about whether the A.B C He was suitable for them, either if offer"

This undergraduate looks convincing as she persuades an alumnus that a pledge to the 1982Alumni Fund is money well spent. She was oneof 450 students taking part in the April telethon that elicited over $lOO,OOO in new pledgesduring four evenings, bringing the fund to$5.5 million toward a $9-million goal.