Radcliffe Passes RGA Proposal for Minor Sign-Out Change

The Radcliffe Administration yesterday approved a minor change in the sign-out rules, allowing students to leave their dorm any time before 1 a.m. and after 6 p.m. without special permission.

The change was recommended by the RGA last Wednesday, and will go into effect immediately after vacation.

Until now, Radcliffe girls were completely free to leave the dorm only before 10 p.m. and after 7:30 a.m. Between 10 and 1 a.m. or before 7:30, a girl was required to get verbal permission to go out. Head residents, dorm presidents, and members of the house committee each had the power to grant this permission under certain circumstances.

Since the procedure was complicated, and permission usually automatic, contenders on both sides of the current debate criticized this particular requirement.