Not Guilty

In a representative Summer School girl, was outraged to read in your columns recently that Mr. C. Graham Hurlbut considers me responsible for the complete chaos in the summer dining halls. Mr. Hurlbut, to quote your story, "said yesterday that the girls' hesitation at the food counters and the students' tendency to arrive for meals in large groups are responsible for the long lines."

No theory, however apparently absurd, should be dismissed without testing so my clique, which has been proceeding to the Union as a group of 60 directly from Hum 8-9, decided to break up into 20 groups of three individuals for lunch today. Furthermore, the 28 girls among us (an almost exact correspondence with the summer school's percentage) vowed not to hesitate over any of the offered dishes, but to grab everything that was shoved at us, odious though the task might be. A stopwatch test clocked the fastest of us in 8:47 from the end of the line to the meat loaf, while those arriving at less fortuitous moments lagged several minutes behind.

I think Mr. Hurlbut owes all of us an apology, as much for the insult to our eating habits as for the relative coldness of the meat loaf by the time one finally passes the milk machine and sits down. It's a bit much to bear, especially since another recent research of mine indicates that slightly better than 68 per cent of summer school girls are on diets and not eating, much less hesitating over meals, anyway. Lorna S. Kats