TRI SIG PROPOSES ARE YOU SATISFIED
SORORITY HOUSING WITH THE FOOD?
In a letter to Dean Berry, which
was read to the Board of Trustee’s
newly formed Campus Life Com
mittee, Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority
requested a change in the college
policy which prohibits sorority
housing.
The following is the text of the
letter which was signed by Patty
Walker, the sorority’s corresponding
secretary.
Dear Dean Berry,
\Ne would like to request an
alteration or addition in Eton College
policy which would allow for sorority
housing. \Ne realize that housing
facilities are not available at this
time, but we would like college policy
to include considerations for sorority
houses now in case any facilities
become available in the future. The
house would be college property,
and the occupants would be re
quired to live under regular women’s
regulations. A housemother ap
proved by Eton would live in the
house, also. The sorority house
would unite sorority sisters closer
together and would be an asset to
Eton’s Greek life. W/e have seriously
considered the subject and have
sent letters to sorority members
parents to find their feelings on the
matter very positive. 1/Ve received
eighteen replies, and all eighteen
supported the idea of a sorority
house. Sigma Sigma Sigma also
calculated their members’ grade
point average to find that an average
of 2.695 does not deter hopes of a
sorority house. Tri Sig has also
written their national executive of
fices only to receive encouragement
for renting a sorority house from the
college. We feel that housing would
not only be an asset to each sorority
concerned, but to Eton campus life
in general.
Needless to say, we foresee the
practical problems which might
arise. First, no houses seem to be
available, l/l/e ask only that if and
when any house becomes available
that sororities be considered on an
equal basis as fraternities in using
the facilities for their houses. We
also foresee the added expense of
hiring a housemother. Since the
college provides housemothers for
the dorms and sorority housing
would require more housemothers,
each sorority would be expected to
pay the salary of their own
housemother. Lastly we recognize
the exodus of a considerable
number of women from regular
dorms to sorority houses. To begin
with, every sorority member wiil not
be able to move into the sorority
house due to lack of rooms. Each
house would be inhabited by a max
imum of sixteen women thus only
sixty-four women would be involved
for all four sororities. We have no
definite solution to this problem of
women evacuating the dorms, but
we feel that sorority houses would be
advantageous in encouraging future
women enrollments to Eton College.
If Elon has more to offer women
students, hopefully female enroll
ment will increase to make up for the
evacuation into sorority houses.
We realize sorority houses may
not be a possibility in the
foreseeable future, but we wish for
the policy to be passed so that we
may have a progressive college
policy which would not discourage
sorority housing. Ail of these con
siderations in mind, we hope you will
pass this policy.
Summary of proposed policy:
Elon College recognizes the rights
of sorority women to live in sorority
houses provided by the school as
fraternity houses are now provided.
The house would operate under
college regulations and be overseen
by a housemother approved by the
college and paid by the sorority. This
policy does not guarantee provisions
of a house to sororities but allows for
their existence if and when housing
facilities become available.
According to the brief summary of
the Campus Life Committee
meeting, which was forwarded to
Jim Denton by W. Jennings Berry,
Jr., the Board of Trustees committee
“considered a request from Sigma
Sigma Sigma Sorority to adopt a
policy that would permit sororities to
live in houses such as some of the
fraternities are doing when and if
such housing becomes available.
Expressing the need for more infor
mation, the committee asked that
the administration give further con
sideration and study to the proposal
and report to the Board of Trustees
at a later date.”
Broadside Today Staff
pamela davis
bonnie dorman
greg overfelt - assistant editor
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james denton - publisher
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drew petrizio - editor
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COMMENTS ON
OUR LAST ISSUE
It was spring when. Broadside
Today finally reappeared on the Elon
College campus. Student activity
was at an all-time high as well-
tanned co-eds paraded about the
lake instead of attending afternoon
classes. For that day, the Great Out
doors was to take precedence over
any sort of academic respon
sibilities. Student opinion, which is
scarce most of the time, made itself
heard as the paper was being dis
tributed. And from the myriad com
ments, one of our staff reporters
decided to jot down a few. Here are a
few we thought you would enjoy:
“I'm glad the Broadside Today
came out!”
“They didn’t work much on this.”
"They did very well considering
the number of writers.”
"Every two weeks ... I believe it’s
been five months!”
“That’s not the way I heard it.”
"This article is okay, I guess.”
“Broadside is out today? Where?”
“That’s a damn good paper!”
"Are you satisfied with the food?”
on posters placed around the cam
pus brought a number of students to
a meeting on March 13 in the Stu
dent Union. The discussion included
students’ specific complaints con
cerning our food service and
remedies in which every student can
participate. The complaints ex
pressed by the students centered
around the quality of the food
provided by the ARA at Elon, and the
ways in which the food is prepared.
Two solutions offered were to
boycott the dining halls or to ask
another food service to handle Elon.
It was explained by Reese Cover,
leader of the discussion and head of
the Food and Cafeteria Committee,
that these suggestions would not
work: a boycott would be useless
unless all students participate, and
In the March 14, 1973 meeting of
the Student Senate three resolutions
were passed to reform rules
regulating women students.
Senate Resolution 73-3.2 calls for
the Administration to abolish the
Strict Strict Campus penalty
because of its severity and because
the penalty “is discriminatory in that
men students have no such penalty.”
According to the Student Handbook
the provisions of the Strict Strict
Campus penalty are: “No one is
permitted to be in the room except
the student's roommate; her meals
are brought to her room. She may
leave her room for classes. She may
receive only long distance calls and
may make none.” The Resolution
was authored by the Women's Rules
Study Commission, a group of seven
women students who were ap
pointed in the fall by the Student
Government President. The bill was
also endorsed by the Women’s Inter
dormitory Council.
Senate Resolution 73-3.2 calls for
the Administration to change the
women’s Campus penalty so that it
conforms to the men’s Campus
penalty. Article I of the bill says that,
“The Women’s Campus penalty be
defined as follows (according ot
page 28 of the Elon College Hand
book of 1972-73): Campus: the stu
dent will not be allowed to leave the
campus except under emergency
conditions.” The present penalty
requires that women students “must
be in the dormitory by 7:00 and on
the hall by 7:30. She may not leave
the dormitory after 7:00.” This
resolution was authored by the
Women’s Rules Study Commission
and co-authored by James Denton.
The resolution was also endorsed by
the WIDC.
Senate Resolution 73-3.5 extends
the closing hours of the women’s
dormitories. The resolution, which
was authored by Denton, requests
that the new closing hours be
changed to 12:30 a.m. for Sunday
through Thursday, and 2:00 a.m. on
no other food service would take
Elon because it would make no
profit.
Other suggestions included
asking for more variety in the menu
and serving steaks on a weeknight
instead of on Saturday nights. As an
answer to this. Cover awkwardly
commented that “steaks are served
on Saturday night in order to en
courage Elon students to stay here
on weekends.”
The most feasible idea is that all
students have their parents write the
Board of Trustees about the food
served at Elon. Thus far, a petition
has made its way around campus,
listing several specific complaints
concerning the food and its prepara
tion. The petition is to be sent to the
Board of Trustees and to several
ARA officials.
Friday and Saturday. This resolution
was endorsed by the WIDC.
All of the resolutions that were
approved by the Senate have the
following article attached to them:
“That upon consideration the ap
propriate administrative office of
Elon College forward a written report
of its decision to the authors of this
bill and the Speaker of the Senate in
care of the Student Government
Association.” As of this date the
Student Government has heard
nothing from the Dean of Students
or the Dean of Women's office.
COLONNADES
IS COMING!
Colonnades is coming! Elon’s
literary magazine has been com
pleted and will be available on May
first. The 1973 issue holds ap
proximately twenty-five pages of the
best original literature and artwork
contributed by Elon students. Colon
nades has something for everyone,
including poetry, drama, sketches
and prints. More than this. Colon
nades is the chance for Elon
students to hear each other out, in
words and in picture, and to hold on
to the precious right of free and
creative expression.
The magazine is particularly im
portant this year; the 1973 edition is
a revival of the magazine cancelled
two years ago by the administration,
which decided that, because of un
desirable language found in that
issue, it could no longer fund Colon
nades. This year the Student
Government Association realized
the importance of Colonnades as a
form of genuine student expression
and, as a result, provided the
necessary funds for its publication.
The S.G.A. and the Colonnades staff
hope that the magazine will be a
success not only this year but in
years to come.
Women’s Rules Under
Attack In Student Senate