Weld Change To Cut Costs For Students

Recovery of the first two floors of Weld Hall for dormitory purposes will free at least two more entries in Wigglesworth for low-cost residencies.

With additional rooms for 40 to 45 students in Weld, freshmen can be diverted from Wigglesworth. This will give Dudley Master Delmar Leighton '19 long-awaited extra openings for commuters who want to live in and can afford room charges, but who cannot afford the $620 bill for meals.

At present, applications for the low-cost facilities will be accepted from sophomores and juniors now forced to reside in the Houses, thus easing crowded conditions in the Houses. Students are not presently allowed to live in any House except Dudley without paying the full board rates.

Boston Students Preferred

Preference in assignments will go to students from the Greater Boston area and then to students with financial need. For the first time decisions on the rooms will be in the hands of Leighton and not of the Administrative Board.

Leighton praised the "restoration of Yard dormitories to dorm purposes" and pointed out that of 12 freshmen applying for Wigglesworth last year, only one could be housed there, since upperclassmen were given preference. "Dudley serves to introduce flexibility into the housing system," he said. "We make possible transfers from residential to non-residential without making the student adjust to an entirely new environment."

Those administrative offices in Weld which have not moved to the new University Health Center will probably occupy recently vacated office space in University Hall. Before the beginning of the next academic year, all of Weld will be renovated.