April 5, 1946
THE TWIG
Page Three
^ Regulations as Suggested by the Committee of Seven, Student Body, and Student Council
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Editor’s Note: The following
regulations were suggested by
the Committee of Seven. They
were voted on by the Student
Council and the Student body.
Some of the recommendations
still have to go before the Fac
ulty Committee on Student Gov
ernment and the Board of
Trustees.
COLLEGE POLICIES
Meredith students do not tol
erate hazing, and they consider
an interference by members of
one class with another as hazing.
They do not have sororities of
any name or kind on the campus,
whether regular or irregular,
affiliated or unaffiliated with a
similar organization elsewhere.
The punishment for this offense
will be expulsion, or probation,
at the discretion of the Student
Government Council subject to
the approval of the Faculty
Committee on Student Govern
ment.
In view of the results of the
poll concerning dancing taken
among the students, we recom
mend that dancing be allowed on
the campus at Meredith. We
feel that supervised dances on
the campus will be more ad
visable than a system of off-cam
pus dances sponsored by college
organizations.
In view of the results of the
poll concerning smoking taken
among the students, we recom
mend that smoking be allowed
at Meredith under conditions
which will be determined by the
Student Government Association
and Board of Trustees.
Since Meredith is a denomina
tional college, its students will
want to observe Sunday in the
manner which they feel right.
Each student is urged to attend
church and Sunday school in the
morning, and church and train
ing union at night. In order to
become accustomed to regular
church attendance. Freshmen
and Sophomores are required to
attend church and Sunday school
on Sunday morning. Each Fresh
man and Sophomore will be al
lowed eight unexcused absences
from church per year. A week’s
campus is the penalty for the
ninth unexcused church absence.
When the student is away from
the college for the day on Sun
day and does not attend her
church in Raleigh, the absence
is unexcused.
STUDENT REGULATIONS
Class Privileges
Each student is to have social
privileges of the class of which
she is a member according to
academic classification. For ex
ample, a second year student
who is a Freshman has Fresh
man privileges.
Privileges taken after 6:00
p.m. count as evening engage
ments. Students who take eve
ning privileges off the campus
may stay out until 11:00 p.m.
Dating always counts as a privi
lege, on or off the campus.
Freshmen
I. Privileges:
1. Three week-ends per se
mester.
2. Three day engagements per
week.
3. Three evening engage
ments per week.
4. Six late dance privileges
per year.
II. Chaperonage:
1. During the first semester.
Freshmen must be chaperoned
at all times after 6:00 p.m. Dur
ing the second semester, Fresh
men must take evening privi
leges in groups of two.
2. Chaperones
a. Official chaperones.
(1) Resident seniors and
juniors, who have attended
Meredith for at least one
year.
(2) Members of the fac
ulty or administration.
(3) A student’s parents or
older brother or sister.
b. Other persons approved
by the Dean of Women.
3. For dances.
Freshmen must be chaper
oned by members of the fac
ulty or administration or by
appointed students from the
Junior and Senior classes
when going to a dance from
the college and returning to
the college after a dance.
III. Week-ends:
1. During her first semester at
Meredith College a student may
not leave the College for an over
night absence or out-of-town
trip without a written permis
sion from parents or guardians.
These permissions must be
mailed directly to the Office of
the Dean of Women and must
state the destination and dates
of departure and return.
2. After a student has been at
Meredith one semester, she may
use the green slips for obtaining
special permission, provided that
she allow 24 hours for her re
quest to be approved or disap
proved.
3. A freshman may transfer a
week-end from one semester to
another with permission from
the president of the Student
Government Council.
Sophomores
I. Privileges:
1. Eight week-ends per year.
2. Four day engagements per
week.
3. Four evening engagements
per week.
4. Seven late dance privileges
per year.
II. Chaperonage:
1. After 7:30 p.m. Sophomores
must be accompanied by at least
one other person—student, date,
or friend.
2. For dances.
Sophomores may go unchap
eroned if two couples go and
come together.
Juniors
I. Privileges:
1. Ten week-ends per year.
2. Social engagements at their
discretion.
3. Juniors may stay out until
11:30 on Saturday night.
4. Eight late dance privileges
per year.
II. Chaperonage:
1. Juniors may take privileges
unchaperoned.
2. For dances.
Juniors may go to dances
unchaperoned.
Seniors
I. Privileges:
1. Week-ends at their discre
tion.
2. Social engagements at their
discretion.
3. Seniors may stay out until
11:30 on Saturday night.
4. Dances at their discretion.
5. A privilege that teaching
Seniors have is that of keeping a
car during their semester of su
pervised teaching. They may
keep the keys themselves, but
must obtain special permission
to use the car for purposes other
than teaching. All Seniors may
keep a car during their last
month at Meredith.
II. Chaperonage:
1. Seniors may take privileges
unchaperoned.
2. For dances.
Seniors may go to dances
unchaperoned.
Special Privileges
I. Members of the Student
Government Council may exer
cise the privileges of the class
above the one of which they are
members.
II. The Wilmont business sec
tion ends at Dixie Trail. Going
to Wilmont does not count as a
privilege until after 6:00 p.m.
III. Married students, regard
less of classification, may go out
unchaperoned with their hus
bands at any time.
SOCIAL REGULATIONS
Registration
Immediately before leaving
and upon returning to the col
lege, each student signs on her
own dormitory card. The stu
dent should sign the names of
the persons with whom she is go
ing, and when she goes to church,
the name of the church. To ex
ercise a privilege which requires
special permission, a student
must first check her permission
in the office of the Dean of
Women and then sign out on a
special permission slip.
When to sign out on the dor
mitory card:
1. Whenever a student leaves
the campus.
2. When dating in the parlor
or on the campus.
3. When horseback riding.
4. When bicycle riding.
By so doing, a student makes
it possible for the Dean of
Women to locate her should un
expected company arrive.
If, while she is away, emer
gencies arise and a student can
not change or sign her own card,
she may telephone the office of
the Dean of Women or a mem
ber of the Council of the Student
Government. Only the Dean of
Women, however, can sign or
change a special permission slip.
The keeping of a student’s
card is a matter of her personal
honor and her own responsi
bility. The way a student keeps
her card is a good index to the
way she keeps the rules.
Jurisdiction of the College
When returning to the college
from week-ends, holidays, or
days out of town, students are
under the jurisdiction of the Col
lege as soon as they enter Ra
leigh. When a girl is with either
of her parents in Raleigh, she
is under her parent’s jurisdic
tion.
When students are visiting in
the homes of friends in Raleigh,
except for week-ends, they re
main under the regular college
rules. They are under their
hostess’ chaperonage only when
in her company.
When spending a week-end in
Raleigh, a student is under the
jurisdiction of her hostess, ex
cept for matters of college policy.
Dating
1. Hours for dating in the parlor:
a. Until 11:00 p.m. in the eve
ning.
b. On Saturday night. Juniors
and Seniors may date in the par
lor until 11:30 p.m.
c. No dating in the parlor on
Monday evening because of the
various meetings of student so
cieties and executive councils.
If necessary, permission may be
secured from the office of the
Dean of Women to date in the
parlor on Monday evening.
2. Signing to use the parlor for
dating.
Girls who have evening dates
will register in advance in the
hostess parlor, for the conven
ience of the hostess. No special
permission is required to register
late. When a girl has a date she
signs on her card in the dormi
tory, indicating that she is in
the parlor, and the name of her
date.
3. Half-hour dates.
If a boy comes unexpectedly
to see a student, she may see this
person for thirty minutes, after
signing on the sheet in the
hostess’ parlor, without counting
it a privilege. More than one
thirty-minute date during an
evening counts as a regular eve
ning dating privilege.
4. Where to receive and leave
dates.
All girls, including those who
are going out for an evening, are
to receive and leave their dates
in Johnson Hall. The doors be
side the steps of Johnson Hall
are the proper ones to use when
you come in from a date. Parlor
dates must leave by 11:00 p.m.
On Saturday night. Juniors and
Seniors may remain in the par
lor until 11:30 p.m. Bells ring
at 10:45, 10:55, 11:00, and, on
Saturday, at 11:25 p.m., to re
mind her of the time.
Hut Regulations
1. Students may date in the
Hut under regular chaperonage.
2. Dates are to be met in the
parlor as usual. Boys must be
taken to the Hut by girls; that is,
a crowd of boys cannot go to the
Hut without dates.
3. Dates shall leave the Hut
ten minutes before the close of
the parlor hours in order to
leave the parlors on time.
4. Notices of private parties
or public meetings in the Hut
shall be posted on the calendar
in the office of the Dean of
Women two days in advance,
and on a calendar on the bulle
tin board in Vann Hall. (This
calendar is recommended so that
a girl may know whether the
Hut is taken, if unexpected com
pany arrives and she would like
to date in the Hut.)
5. Each group using the Hut,
as a group, is responsible for
having it cleaned not later than
the next day.
Riding
Before a student may exercise
riding privileges, a written per
mission from home must be ap
proved and filed in the office of
the Dean of Women. Also to be
included in the general riding
permission from home are gen
eral permission for driving any
car and permission for airplane
riding.
Riding with strangers is never
permitted.
All students may ride under
general chaperonage rules.
As a safety measure, girls are
asked not to ride bicycles on
Hillsboro Street.
Dancing Off The Campus
I. The following regulations ap
ply to dances sponsored by an
approved organization or insti
tution:
1. Before a student may exer
cise dancing privileges, a general
written permission from home
must be approved and filed in
the office of the Dean of Women.
All students during their first
semester of residence must have
for each dance a written per
mission from parents to the Dean
of Women giving, date, dance,
name of escort, and, if a student
is staying out of college for the
week-end, the name and address
of the hostess. After her first
semester at Meredith, a student
must sign the dance book giving
the above information for ob
taining dance permission.
2. All students must go di
rectly to the dance and may not
leave the dance except to return
to the college.
3. No student may spend a
night in a fraternity house,
boarding house, tourist home or
hotel, unless under the chaper
onage of her parents or another
person deemed suitable by the
office of the Dean of Women.
4. When attending dances held
in Raleigh, students must go
from and return to the college.
They must be in within an hour
after the dance. This rule does
not apply to Raleigh students
spending the night at home or to
girls spending the night with
their parents in Raleigh. This
rule does apply to guests.
5. When dances are held out
side of Raleigh, students under
chaperonage regulations may be
allowed to go from and return
to the college within an hour
after the dance; or they may
spend the week-end in that city,
if satisfactory arrangements are
made in advance with the Dean
of Women.
6. Only girls who are students
in residence at Meredith may go
from and return to the college.
Special permission to do other
wise must be obtained from the
Dean of Women 48 hours in ad
vance.
7. In order to arrange for
chaperonage, it is necessary that
students who expect to return
to the college from dances make
arrangements with the office of
the Dean of Women at least 48
hours in advance.
II. The dancing of individual
couples in public places is not
permitted.
General Appearance
In order to maintain Mere
dith’s standing as a well-dressed
and well-groomed college, stu
dents are urged to dress for town
when they go to town. Skirts
and sloppy sweaters, with run-
over loafers or saddle oxfords,
do not help to build a reputation
of being well-dressed. Meredith
girls are urged to wear hats and
hose whenever they are in order.
Students are required to wear
hose after six o’clock past the
Varsity Theater, except for
sports events. Hose are required
all day on Sunday past the Var
sity. Hats are required on Sun
day morning to church. Before
October 1 and after May 1, leg
makeup and very brown legs
may replace hose. Between Oc
tober 1 and May 1, either socks
or hose are required at all times
off campus, except for walking
behind the school.
For the benefit of the new stu
dents, the following occasions
are suggested as being those to
which it is customary to wear
hose in the afternoon:
Restaurants.
Social events.
Business and professional en
gagements.
The following occasions are
suggested as those to which it is
customary to wear hats:
Restaurants at night.
Social and business engage
ments.
Because students should look
well on the campus as well as off
campus, students are asked to
wear socks or hose to classes, in
Johnson Hall, and in the dining
hall. After May 1 and before
October 1, no socks are required
with playshoes. Students are
asked not to wear kerchiefs in
class, to chapel, or in the dining
room.
Students are required to wear
hose to dinner on Saturday night
and on Sunday. They are urged
to dress appropriately for a
“dress dinner.”
DORMITORY REGULATIONS
1. Dormitory Hours:
Every student is to be in her
room from light bell, 11:15 p.m.,
to rising bell, 7:00 a.m., every
night except Saturday, when
light bell shall be extended to
11:30 p.m.
To spend the night elsewhere
than in one’s own room permis
sion must be obtained from the
Hall Proctor.
2. Changing of rooms:
a. A student is expected dur
ing the first two weeks of school
and during the period following
Christmas Holidays until one
week after exams to make no
changes of room or roommate.
b. At all other times stu
dents before making changes
must ask permission of the
House Director.
3. Quiet:
Quiet is observed as follows:
a. Morning and afternoon
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b. 7:30-10:00 p.m. on all nights
except Saturday.
c. No music is to be practiced
Sunday from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
(We recommend that phones
come on at two on Sunday.)
d. After light bell.
e. Radios, other musical in-
truments, or typewriters must
not be heard outside the room
after light bell or before rising
bell.
4. Lights:
A. For Freshmen and Sopho
mores:
1. Lights must be out at
11:15 p.m. Monday through
Friday nights.
2. Saturday and Sunday
nights, lights go out at 11:30
p.m.
3. Exceptions to these rules:
a. One light cut is grant
ed to a room once a week
when lights may be kept on
until 12:00. Your light cuts
are observed in your own
room. Sign up for your light
cut on the Hall Proctor’s
door.
b. Student Council, B.S.U.
Council, Athletic Board, and
the Nominating Committee
Members are granted light
cuts on the nights of their
regular meetings.
c. Members of the publi
cations staffs the night be
fore the periodical goes to
press may have a light cut.
d. Manager of the “B-
Hive” has unlimited light
cuts.
B. For Juniors and Seniors:
1. Lights must be out at
12:00.
2. One unlimited light cut
is granted to a room once a
week. Unlimited light cuts are
observed in your own room.
Sign up for unlimited light
cuts on the Hall Proctor’s door.
C. Permission to practice plays
or hold meetings of any nature