'Cliffe May Give Clubs Freer Use of Buildings

The Dean's Office is trying to arrange with Radcliffe a liberalization of that schools' rules on the use of buildings for undergraduate organizations, Dean Watson disclosed yesterday.

Radcliffe buildings are normally not available for evening meetings or extracurricular activities, making it necessary for Harvard-Radcliffe organizations to use Harvard buildings. Liquor is also prohibited within the Radcliffe buildings. The Harvard Dean's Office must thus use money allocated for janitorial fees for organizations with Radcliffe members, and arrange for chaperones "for another college," Watson said.

Neither Watson nor Dean Brown have any definite suggestions: "I don't see any way out of it right now," Dean Brown admitted yesterday. "So far this has not gone beyond Mr. Watson and myself, but it will; some of the angles of this will have to be top policy decisions."

Part of the problem, both deans admitted, has come from the decision of the two administrations last year to permit organizations from the two schools to merge. "The mergers of clubs did not precipitate the problem," Dean Brown added; "it aggravated a problem that was getting worse year by year."

The two hope to come to some agreement in order to relieve the one-sided load on Dean's Office funds, and at the same time to make sure that "Harvard-Radcliffe groups should not suffer" because of the present policy, Watson stated. Dean Brown also expressed the hope that mergers by organizations would not be hurt by the present situation.

Watson emphasized that his complaint was not with unmerged Harvard organizations, to which are extended "the greatest degree of freedom." He illustrated the amount of clerical work for which Radcliffe's policy is partly responsible, showing that 500 permits for the use of buildings, printed in September, have been used up.

The rule, which both Deans Watson and Brown are trying to alleviate, is, Dean Leighton quipped yesterday, "education neither separate nor equal."