Title IX Views Status of Coeducation
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Title IX views status of coeducation By AMANDA HALL increasing the community's aware- The campus has changed both ven now since women are on cam- Sports Editor ness of discrimination, and an educa- socially and educationally since wo- pus," Wassen said. Four years after coeducation began tion process. men were admitted, according to He said that the men felt pressure at Davidson, Title IX, with evalua- Coeducation came into effect with Wassen. to date on weekends, and "If you tion procedures and legal means of the '73-74 academic year. "Generally He thinks the men function more didn't have a car and money you had counteracting discrimination, has some people were happy about it," securely socially without women on yourself and that was it. Now you can been put into effect. said former Union President Richard campus because "it's difficult to carry date someone here." Title IX will have several effects on Wassen. "We didn't know what to on a relationship with the pressure "I definitely think (the social campus, according to Assistant Dean expect." here. Before coeducation you didn't pattern) is more relaxed, more nat- of Students Mary Lou Dietler; the A few people were mad about it, have to see the other person all the ural, something you don't worry program will serve as a guide for but they were a minority. There was a time." about anymore, since the women evaluating coeducation, a legal means minority strongly for it, but most "We were sort of naive, thinking came," he said. for reporting discrimination, a tool for students were apathetic about it," he women were objects to be dated on The women improved the educa- said. weekends, but that has been dispro- tional opportunities on campus, ac- cording to Wassen. "I remember some of my classes; I was glad to have women in there because they were sharp and they added a new me aaviasoman viewpoint, a new dimension," he said. Vol. LXVI, No. FIVE Davidson College, Davidson, N.C. 28036 October 15, 1976 [see TITLE IX, page 8] I College ponders opening Rusk to new eating group By DENNIS McLAWHORN another establishment to take by Lynn Langley and Carter Staff Writer care of the ones who were left Todd is already working to A forecast of overcrowded out. The venture never really accumulate the freshman sup- conditions in the existing frat- got off the ground, due mainly port necessary for an attempt ernities and eating houses is to a lack of interest shown at to open a new house. The necessitating an attempt to such a late time of the year. committee will be circulating a open Rusk House for next This year's even larger petition sometime in the near year freshman class will magnify future to ascertain if the Last year, there weren'l|»the problem of over-crowding, interest is there. enough places for the students There simply won't be enough Will Terry, Dean of Stu- who wanted to join a frater- space for all of them at the dents, commented on the sub- RUSK HOUSE—Davidson's newest -Steve Lewis nity or eating house and some present eating facilities, ject, "The whole matter is in eating club? of the students tried to open An SGA committee headed the preliminary stages. It's an expensive proposition; it will take some real commitment in terms of the participants' will- 'Institutional' dorms need renovation, ingness, to commit themselves for at least a year. Its success will depend upon good finan- future plans anticipate only 'updating'cial management. It will need, By PHILIP DUNCAN housing situation and the don't enjoy those advantages. rooms are conducting a "com- I think, at least sixty people to Asst. News Editor impossibility of new construc- "I think it's evident that munity cook-in" with toaster make it. In spite of all these Davidson College has no tion, there are no prospects for priorities have been placed in ovens, hot plates, popcorn difficulties, a house like this is plans to build a new student the type of renovation that other areas besides housing. I poppers, you name it. badly needed in light of the housing facility. If the quality would displace students now guess it's just a matter of "I know that sort of thing is space problems at other frater- of on-campus living is to be in the dorms," said Business where a college wants to put against regulations, but the nities and eating houses. upgraded, improvement of ex- Manager Robert A. Currie. its emphasis — and who con- fact is that students today "One of the real questions isting dormitories is the only "If the push for housing trols the purse-strings," sta- with their hair-dryers and that the college will have to alternative. on-campus were to ease, I ted Nicholls. other appliances need more decide will be how much "It seems that almost ev- assume that in the next year's Future improvements of the power than the wiring can money they'll be willing to put eryone has a plan for how we budget, funds would be set dorms will follow the lines of provide. in to provide furniture and should renovate the dorms," aside to begin work on the the sixties' "updating". "The transition will be ex- other amenities that go into a said Director of the Physical most important improvement Meetze says that the electri- pensive, but soon we'll have to good social program. A good Plant Grover C. Meetze, Jr. priority," said Currie. cal systems in the dorms are increase the capacity of the social program is an essential "I'm sympathetic with the inadequate. wiring." ingredient to the success of desire to get away from the Second article "Hardly a weekend goes by The Residence Hall Asso- such a house. We're not institutional look of our in a series without someone calling to tell ciation and College are work- interested in a trough." dorms, but the school's policy me that their power has gone ing together to install kitchens does not call for any major "In the late sixties we made out. |See RENOVATION, page 3] |see RUSK, page 2] renovations in the future," he some cosmetic changes, 'plas- "I usually find that four said. tic surgery', I guess you would Director of Student Hous- call it, in Watts, Cannon, and ing Scotty Nicholls presented Sentelle," said Nicholls. her ideas for renovation to "We put in new furniture, Meetze in the late sixties. She lighting fixtures, flooring, does not remember all the closets, door frames and details of her proposal now, doors, and added lounges in but recalled that "it provided each dorm. for a breaking up of the long "But I don't think this corridors, thereby dividing effort could be called anything halls into smaller blocks of other than an updating. There rooms. Bathrooms were to be certainly was no major reno- enlarged and a common-use vation." study-typing room provided "There are certain human for each block. The renovation needs that must be met," would have cut two students' commented Nicholls. rooms from each floor, I "There should be space for believe. students to relax outside of "Thinning out the popula- their rooms. tion in the dorms is the "We are fortunate to have a essential step towards making spacious student union, a them a better place to live," good-sized library and living she said. room areas in the eating "THERE SHOULD BE space for students to relax..." Belk's •Steve Lewis "Because of the crowded houses. Many private colleges single lounge serves over 300 students. the davidsonian October 15, 1976 Morton antiques provide •<# eleqance for Wilson Room college president Samuel R. Grover Meetze designed the By CHARLES ERWIN room as a part of his Staff Writer Spencer Jr., to supervise the A new banquet room to project, said that, when tion of the Grey library into a house official college dinners completed, the new dining student union. The area of the and special campus social room will definitely be "the Wilson Room was originally functions is presently being most elegant on campus". taken up by library offices. prepared in the Grey Student Although commonly re- Music Professor Lucille Union. It is located between ferred to as the Woodrow Snider is in charge of the the entance to the snack bar Wilson Room, Spencer said actual decorating of the room. and the union desk. that no final action had been However, because she is still taken on a name. in the middle of her plans she WOODROW WILSON ROOM aw- Mrs Ava Spencer, who was -Steve Lewis appointed by her husband Physical Plant Director declined to comment upon how aits elegance. the room will appear when completed. Antique furniture given by the estate of Mrs. Florence Baskin outlines SGA Senate goals, Clift Horton in memory of her son, Davidson alumnus four main areas merit consideration Gordon Horton '54, will provide the focal point of the By LYMAN COLLINS we have adequate facilities, or development Baskin pointed we go the next step and adopt room's decoration. According Assistant News Editor given current facilities, what to the vast potential in audio- a merit based admissions pol- to Mrs Spencer all of these According to SGA Presi- should be our enrollment?" visual aids that are for the icy and abolish the sex quota. pieces are in the Eighteenth dent Bo Baskin, the four main Baskin said that he was par- most part untapped here. This committee is going to Century English style.