Page Four Thoughts About New Dorm Tlli the last of two articles by Ann Lousin concerning the construction of a new men’s dorm. The first appeared in last Week's issue. (For those of you who were not with me last week, the first part of this column was a de- fense of the off-campus men. This week, I should like to de- fend on campus women.) The Board of Trustees’ pro- posal to build a new men’s dorm is doubly ridiculous be- cause I) there is no need to pull thirty men hack on cam- pus; and Z) the need for some drastic changes in the women’s dorms is overwhelmingly great- er than the need for better ac- commodations for the men. For example, Loose hall, which was built in 1947, was the last wom» en’s dorm, whereas the college has since then‘erected the dou— ble Younkers in 1948 and the double Norrises in 1960. At the time that the college built Loose, it left one whole wall solidly without windows with the promise that within a few years a Loose tower would be built, approximately the height of Main hall, so that the Quadrangle would then be architecturally balanced, There were also to be a parking area for the Women students and their guests and a proper en- trance off Eighth avenue, some- what like the Main hall en- trance. This would have re- lieved much of the traffic at Main and offered a second en- trance for women after the loggia was closed. Needless to say, the women are still wait- ing for these additions, MeanWhile, the over-crowd» Ing of the loggia continues. Main hall undoubtedly holds the worst accommodations on campus. In that peak year of 1960-61, Main, which was built to accommodate about forty women comfortably, held sixty» three uncomfortably. The wom— an of Main have, in reality, no lounge, as anyone who has ever been in the “Q'uadrangle Drawing Room" at lunchtime can testify. When Gardner lounge replaced the Little Theatre the Trustees said that it would become the Main Hall lounge in 1964, Now the plans are to keep it a public meeting- room, (for “dating couples,” Dr. Bowen said.) So Main hall still won’t have its own lounge. The rooms in Main are un- doubtedly the smallest and, on the whole, the noisest in the en- tire Quad. Sound carries as if all the rooms were wired on a hall intercom. ls it any wonder that the chief obstacle to abol- ishing freshman dorms is that upperclassmen refuse to move ' out of larger soundproofed singles in Loose into miniscule CChOvchambers in Main with less than minimum airvspace? Speaking of wiring, the elec- tricity of the Quad. especially in the five oldest dorms is dan- gerously inadequate I have leen rooms designated by the architect as singles actually turned into doubles with only one wallsocket. The number of appliances on the one outlet is enough to cause an overload and possibly a fire—~as it did in my room in my freshman year in Main. Kitchenette facilities are hardly adequate and often less than what North Campus has. Instead of the eleven legal and several extra-legal refriger- ators that the men have, the women have four legal refriger- ators and apparently no illegal ones, One' kitchenette often serves 3060 women, with the result that any maintenance is virtually impossible, the kitch- enettes are ill-equipped, and those who want tea or coffee must make it in, their rooms with the illegal, but necessary, coils. The women’s lounges are no bigger, and sometimes smaller. than those in the men’s halls, even though they serve 25 per cent more people per lounge, Three of the women’s halls have poorly-equipped recrea- tion rooms with furniture that look as though even the un- ion would reject it. One of these rec. rooms houses the one tele- vision for over 500 women, (North Campus ratio: 11 for 600,) And then there are “terrace” apartments-the basements of Cleveland, J a m e s, Haines, Read and Loose. In I-Iaines and Read these rooms are separ- ated only by tissue-paper parti- tions. Empirical evidence has demonstrated that a Coke dropped in the farthest room at one end of the floor can be heard most clearly in the room at the other end. The Trustees and Messrs. Bowen, Stauss, and Ludwig have long neglected the renova- tion of the women's dorms in spite of protestations by two Deans of Women—largely be- cause the little sheep of South Campus do such a dandy job of being Hausfrauen and mak- ing the best of their situation. Many women have tried to ame- liorate some of the atrocious color of Skidmore, Owings, eto.'s interior decorator by making their own curtains and dyeing chair - covers, bed- spreads, and rugs to match. It is amazing what they can some- times do with cramped, illrdeo orated rooms. However, mis has gone far enough. It is high time that the ewes of the Quad stopped baa- SCARLET AND BLACK Friday. March l3. I964 Premiere offellon's ‘Daniel Prince' March 15-18. Open Stage ln-lhe-Round. Sludenl Music Employed This Sunday, Monday, Tues- day and Wednesday nights, Grinnell audiences will have an opportunity to witness a unique drama experience when DAN- IEL PRINCE, a play by Keith Spencer Felton, is presented in Arena Theater. The play, sponsored by Na- tional Collegiate Players and Grinnell Players, portrays a day in the life of a young man in Paris of the 188035. Felton, who also is producing and di- recting the play, describes it as a “dreamrpoem,” a phrase which indicates a facet of the drama’s psychological frame- Work, Through many Varied series of events, the play reveals its protagonist’s search for truths within his existence, His rela- tionships with an actress and professor shed varying per- spectives on his character. Discussing the drama, which he wrote last semester, Felton states, “The Counterbalance between ‘ events’ of futile search, and fleeting moments of awareness provide a basis for the play’s action. Symbolic values are attached to many facets of the play. I chose a late nineteenth century setting, be- cause I ieel that the color and' vivacity of life of this period, which is reflected in the music of Wagner, the painting of Manet and Renoir, and the writ ing style of Stendhal and Flaur bert contain a glimpse of the intricate deception which so- ciety of this period constructed to cloud honest encounter with human dilemmas. I am fasci- nated by the Romantic—Victor- ing contentedly in the face of steadily worsening conditions, especially when it is so obvious that they are discriminated against in housing. Now that the Trustees have simply com~ pounded the matter by agree— ing to build another men’s dorm with the money allotted for housing from the Ford grant, I hope that the women will, at long last, insist that they allot some of.that dona- tion to the women instead, COMMUNITY HOSPITAL AUXILIARY ' ‘ Fashion Show Cards 0 Dessert 0 Door Prizes MARCH 23 — 1530 PM. —, $1.15 Veteran's Memorial Center GRINNELL This ad courtesy Poaner's 4th Ave. ian rituals of living, which in so many ways reflect the frenzy we find in our own era.” Asked about the technical phase of the production, Felton replied: “I am intrigued by the kinesthetic elements in drama, as well as character depiction. As a result, we have fashioned a set which, within the confines , of the Arena Theater provrde us with five acting or stage areas, which serve to relate the characters through means of changing per- ception, We have attempted,” Felton continued, “to employ several art film photographic techniques, which enhance the possibilities of production in a foursided arena," DANIEL PRINCE is the first production in the Grinnell Arena Theater which uses the theater-in-therrou'nd technique, with the audience completely surrounding the actors. ’ In the/lead role of the young poet is Bruce McConachie. Sue Monto is featured as Annette Dubois, the actress, and Ken Freedman plays the role of Auguste Chauvin, the professor. Also featured in the cast are Barbara Shivley, Terry Mc- Coy, Jane Geifken, Dick Reich- mann, Howard Harned, Mar- g a r e t Weathers, Margaret Brewer, Burt McDowell. 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