Dorm residents push for policy
reconsideration on co-ed housing issue
It looks like the lines are being
drawn for another skirmish on an
old issue: will the University allow
co-ed housing on campus?
It started a month ago. Fresh
man Chris Duyck wanted to know
why fire doors separating men’s
halls from women’s halls in Bean
complex couldn’t be opened.
He took the issue to Housing
Department Director, H.P. Barn
hart. Duyck quotes Barnhart as
saying...“as long as I’m here,
those doors will not open. I’m the
top. You can’t go anywhere else.”
Barnhart denies he used those
words. He says Duyck considers
opening the fire doors a simple
matter of having co-ed dorms. But
he says opening those doors
would also make for less privacy,
less safety in fires, and disruptive
traffic pattern through the halls.
According to Duyck, Barnhart
said, "If you want tp live in a co-ed
dorm, go to the College Inn."
Barnhart says he did recom
mend the College Inn to Duyck as
one alternative.
Complaints like Chrts’s have
been heard before, and they have
been answered the same way.
But soon the University will own
the College Inn. The question it
may face then is: if dorms with
co-ed floors are available on the
main campus?
Vice-President of Student Ser
vices, Gerald Bogen, answers the
question very simply. “The Uni
versity has never set itself out to
be ail things to all people... does
not have the obligation to provide
co-ed housing."
Bogen says he has never heard
any requests for co-ed dorms.
He may be hearing one from the
Bean President’s Council, the
student governmental body in
Bean complex. For the last two
weeks, the council has had two
committees working on the issue.
If they determine most Bean resi
dents want co-ed housing, they
may request the University
open the fire doors separating
men’s halls from women's halls.
By PETER MEAD
Of the Emerald
Chris Duyck’s investigation of
the chance of keeping fire doors
opened showed it would cost the
University little to do this. Accord
ing to Jack Moore of the A & B
Door Closer Co., fire doors that
close automatically in smoke or
heat would cost somewhere be
tween $60 and $80 apiece. They
would meet the city Fire Dept.’s
standards, he says.
The cost would not include the
cost of installation, however.
A sheer chance inspired Chris
to take up the issue in the first
place. In the first week this term,
residents of third-floor Ganoe, a
men’s hall in Bean complex, dis
covered their laundry-room keys
also opened the firedoor separat
ing them from third-floor DeBusk,
the neighboring women’s hall.
Most living in the two halls
seemed to enjoy the result, a mild
version of co-ed living. Until the
fire-door’s lock was changed a
week later, they kept the door
open, closing it around midnight
each night.
No one filed any complaints that
anyone remembers, according to
the floor resident assistants.
Some thought it was no noisier
than usual, except when some
Ganoe men skate-boarded
through the hallways. Others said
the noise levelled off by the end of
the week, as people got used to
the situation. Many thought the
residents acted more maturely,
not less.
One housing department emp
loye says the department op
poses dorms with co-ed floors for
philosophical reasons. “It’s really
not a question of facilities,” he
says, ”it’s a question of attitude.”
To support that position, he
notes that the housing department
allows co-ed floors in thedormsfor
summer conferences and sum
mer session students. "I see no
reason why what they do in the
summer with other people can't be
extended to students.”
But if the University continues
with its present policy, the recent
experience of the students in
Bean will be the first and last case
of co-ed floors on campus for reg
ular session students.
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