Housing Shortage Threatens Sherley
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The Doily Skiff Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas ^^^^ Tuesday, February 28, 1978 Vol 76, No. 75 Housing shortage threatens Sherley By MONICA ANNE KRAUSSE TCU is seriously considering con- problem and come up with recom- Staff Writer verting the dorm back to housing only mendations. A shortage of women's housing may women. Bob Neeb, director of housing, This committee made its recom- mean the end of Sherley Dormitory's said this would provide much-needed mendations "based strictly on Coordinated Living Program, Housing living space for about 100 women statistics," Pelgram said. Converting officials say. The decision will have to be made Sherley was one of the solutions Sherley residents are generally before the end of February, Neeb said, suggested by the committee. There against the idea, and hope to convince so students will know what options are were no students on the committee, the administration to continue the available when they make housing Pelgram added, because it was for- program, dorm council represen- reservations for next year. med during finals week. tatives indicated in a meeting last However, the final decision cannot Now, another Housing ad hoc Tuesday. be made until an ad hoc committee committee, headed by Ron Wilson, Sherley, located between Colby Hall currently studying Sherley residents' Sherley Hall director, is studying and Cantey St., was originally a opinion has made its recom- Sherley residents' opinions The final women's dorm. In fall of 1976, the mendation, Neeb added recommendation made by Neeb to the dorm's first floor was converted to Because of the shortage of rooms in Student Life office and Chancellor house men and provide another living other dorms, between 40 and 50 women James M. Moudy will be determined f option for students. were assigned to Sherley last fall, after that committee has turned in its Described as "coordinated" rather though they had not listed it as one of report, hopefully by tomorrow, Neeb than coed, Sherley was to provide their housing preferences. said. residents with a relaxed and informal When it became evident last Sherley's dorm council has decided atmosphere for growth through dorm semester that there would be an even to work through this committee to activities greater shortage of rooms for fall. make their unhappiness over the Because of an increase in female 1978, Housing created an ad hoc possibility of losing the coordinated residents on campus and an apparent committee, led by Norma Pelgram, option known. disinterest in the Sherley program, Foster Hall director, to investigate the A survey-taken within the dorm by Chuck Smith, an officer of Sherley's dorm council, indicated that almost all NO BOYS ALLOWED?—Sherley Dormitory may change room is needed. Sherley residents hope administrators will the men and more than half the back to being a girls' dorm if Housing decides more coed not discontinue their program. (Photo by Chris Kelley) 3 TCU bands, guests women there would be upset to see the option taken from them The coor- dinated program was listed as the will perform tonight most common reason for choosing Sherley as a place to live by both men Israelis won't back off and women in the dorm A trio of instrumental groups and Also featured will be Dean Corey, While not precisely a coed dorm, two guest artists will perform tonight professional French hornist with the Sherley's common lounge provides an JERUSALEM (AP)-Prime try to achieve agreement on principles "because his present mission does not in Ed Landreth auditorium at 8:15 Dallas and Fort Worth symphonies opportunity to meet people they might Minister Menachem Begin met with for a peace agreement would be a long serve the cause of a just and lasting the U.S. Mideast negotiator yesterday one. p.m. Admission is free. Corey recently returned to the area otherwise never see. Residents say peace" and "does not concern us in and said afterward Israel refuses to from New York where he played with Sherley emphasizes a "family at- Egypt has insisted that the prin- any way." commit itself to a total pullout from ciples must include Israeli withdrawal In addition to the TCU symphonic the New York Symphony Ballet or- mosphere" within the dorm. "Atherton is only trying to convince occupied lands or to creation of a from all Arab land occupied in the 1967 band, the university concert band and chestra, among others He will per- "Books and words aren't going to do Kgypt to do a bilateral deal instead of Palestinian state, in effect once again war and self-determination for the symphonic wind ensemble will play form Bruce Yurko's "Concerto for you any good if you don't learn about a global solution," said the Damascus rejecting two key Egyptian peace Palestinians in the West Bank and under the direction of James A. French Horn and Wind Ensemble," a people. I think the growth of people in paper virtuoso work which explores the demands liaza Strip. Israel has refused to agree Jacobsen, director of bands and Curtis the other dorms is hampered. They Meanwhile, the Israeli government Assistant Secretary of State Alfred to cither one WUson, assistant band director Music extreme ranges of the French horn. don't have the chances we do," Scott decided to keep on settling Jews in the Atherton conferred with Begin for two The Syrian government newspaper graduate assistants Kim Corbet and The remainder of the concert will be Warren, a Sherley resident, said. occupied Arab territories in spite of hours, continuing his shuttle Tishrin reported yesterday that Rick Nadson also will conduct. a variety of instrumental sections, Women who live there say an in- the Carter administration's opposition mediation effort to find a basis for President Hafez Assad's government including a recent transcription of creased sense of security is another and a split over the policy within the Guest soloist Pamela Wilson will Mendelssohn's "Overture for Band," Egyptian-Israeli agreement on a refused to meet with Atherton cabinet. important element of the program declaration of principles for peace sing "Liebestod" from Wagner's Vaughn Williams' "English Folk Most women who live there say they opera "Tristan." The local soprano is Suite" and "Fanfare," a piece negotiations. feel safer than they would living in Atherton said he was not ready to Union representatives a Green Bay, Wis., native whose originally written for Stan Kenton's another dorm, because the women's music background includes two years Los Angeles neophonic orchestra by propose a compromise formula floors are kept locked and the Begin, who gave the American with Fred Waring and the Penn- Hugo Montenegro, one of Hollywood's presence of men on the first floor work to sell contract sylvanians. most prolific composers. envoy a revised Israeli version of a discourages intruders. declaration, told reporters afterward WASHINGTON (AP>—Some 400 would get from the contract and trying "It's much safer than in a regular that one paragraph was identical in coal miners and United Mine Workers to second guess what questions the 400 dorm, where only the front door is both the Israeli and Egyptian versions district representatives- the men who of so men will have to answer when v News Briefs locked," Martha Class another and some others required only will have to sell the union's rank and they meet with local union resident commented. "There, anyone "certain changes." file on the proposed soft coal industry representatives throughout the Committee approves 'R' films can get in. What happened in Waits But "there are two issues we made contract -met yesterday to discuss UMW's 21 districts later this week. with the Scarf Strangler—that could absolutely clear," he said, referring to ways of going about their difficult The 400 rank-and-file members were TCU's Public Presentations Committee, in charge of deciding con- never happen in Sherley." demands for an Israeli committment task. chosen by UMW President Arnold troversial campus matters, has unaminously approved five R' rated films Neeb said he would prefer having a to total withdrawal and a Palestinian Although the contract has been Miller, who Friday night called them, they reviewed after Chancellor James Moudy voiced concern over them coordinated dorm on main campus, state "These two demands are widely criticized in the coal fields, top "my people." being shown on campus last month. The Daily Skiff has learned. but he said there has not been much unacceptable to us." union officials feel that if they can Miller says he has no plans to go into The Chancellor has the right to overrule the committee's recom- demand for the program, and "it's Atherton told reporters he felt both adequately explain the pact, the the coal fields and stump for the mendation, which he received yesterday. He was unavailable for comment important that we use the existing Israel and Egypt were making "a union's 160,000 striking miners will proposal, as he did in 1974 But Miller The films were judged on the matter of sex, violence and offensive space as best' we can. We have serious effort to find ways to bridge approve the contract next week and be did plan to make an appearance at language. enough places to accommodate the the gap " back in the pits by mid-March yesterday's indoctrination session to They are Marathon Man, Day of the Locust, Woodstock, Where's Papa men who will be displaced" if that "At this stage I am trying to convey Jonathan Williams a UMW in- remind the district representatives of and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.