'Cliffe Approves More Parietals Over Votes of Strong Opposition

Girls in all Radcliffe dorms voted last week to extend parietals in varying amounts -- but not before angry advocates of continence had protested the decision.

In Cabot and Whitman nearly two-thirds of the girls had reservations about extending parietals.

"I don't want any men in my milk and cookies," Mary Ellen Anschuetz '69 of Cabot Hall said yesterday, referring to the traditional 11 p.m. snack served in Cabot on Saturday nights after the dorm is closed to men.

Though the change in parietal hours differs in each dorm, most have decided to use 36 hours a week, an increase of 11 hours.

No Quibble

According to a venomous Cabot junior, the discussion was more than just a quibble about longer parietals:

"Radcliffe divided noticeably into those who are very social and center their lives on boys, and those whose lives revolve around girls. As far as I could see the opposition focused around the resentment of the latter group."

In Whitman -- where at first two-thirds of the girls were against extending parietals -- a poster on the main door tried to persuade them that "The disadvantages of parietals are largely fictional. This is a case of the majority tyrannizing the majority."

One impassioned campaigner for longer parietals attacked opponents' "squirt gun type mentality": "they said they wanted to live in a girls' and not a coed dorm; apparently boys change the atmosphere and make studying more difficult. It is no longer possible to run uninhibited up and down the hall."