Miles Denies Wigg Charges Of Coercion

Several sophomores in Wigglesworth yesterday charged that they were being pressured into moving into Dunster House against their will.

Contacted last night, Carroll S. Miles, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Dunster, denied that any student was not '"free to remain in Wigglesworth if he chose."

The group, dissatisfied with Dunster, emphasized that it had made no formal application to remain in Wigglesworth. "I don't have any choice," said one sophomore, "so I never thought about it." One Dunster tutor said that he knew of no "official" ban on such a choice, but he felt any student making one could be persuaded of Dunster's advantages.

Miles, too, said that he thought it would be "foolish to prefer second-rate housing." He said that he knew of no case in which a student had expressed an open unwillingness to move; and no student said that a member of Dunster's staff had mentioned actual compulsion. But one sophomore said that his tutor had told him he would be pressured to vacate Wigglesworth, and another expressed the feeling that "they want us all to get down and participate in the Dunster Gung Ho."

Most of the residents seemed eager to move into Dunster, giving as the chief reason the inconvenience of having to walk to meals. Those preferring to remain in Wigglesworth next year stressed its proximity to classes and Lamont, its uncrowded atmosphere, and the discount which they received on room rent.

Yet even with these advantages, some students admitted that their primary reason for resisting an expected move was personal opinion. "Dunster is not a nice House," said one complainant. "I don't like its location, I don't like the people in it and I don't like the people who run it."