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April 5, 1946 THE TWIG Page Three ^ Regulations as Suggested by the Committee of Seven, Student Body, and Student Council } 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 Vir^nT*c 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