Eighty Cliffies Are Expected to Move Off; Applications Decrease With New Charge

The Radcliffe Residence Office expects that 80 Radcliffe juniors will move into their own apartments next year.

Last year, before the $270 non-resident fee was instituted, 130 juniors applied to spend their senior year "off-off-campus."

The Residence Office reported that at last count, 48 of next year's approximately 300 seniors had requested to move into apartments. They expect this figure to rise to 60 or 80 by the June 1 deadline.

Students who move off do not pay the $320 room fee or the $620 charge for board.

The $270 fee covers the "non-room" part of the term bill that is used to finance the library, the registrar's office, police protection, and other services that all students use.

Previously, students living off-off-campus did not pay for these services, and a non-resident quota was used to avoid what Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, called a "burden" on college funds.

Last year, the off-off quota was 36. Forty-two students, however, were selected by lottery and "personal criteria" to move off, a spokesman for the Residence Office said.

The decision to allow any senior to move off-campus came late last January, after a year-long debate between students and the Radcliffe administration. Last spring, 27 Climes staged a five-day hunger strike to protest the non-resident quotas.

When the new plan was announced, Mrs. Bunting said that she expected the fee would be $300 and that close to half of the seniors might move off.

Even if the projected number of seniors moves into apartments next year, the dormitories will probably still be crowded, a Residence Office spokesman said yesterday. Three North House off-campus houses--Slater, Warner, and Edmands--will be torn down next year to provide land for the new fourth House.

The approximately 30 underclassmen now living in these three houses have top priority for available North House units in Wolbach Hall, a Radcliffe-owned apartment house.

Although some incoming freshmen will still be assigned economy doubles (small rooms originally designed for one person), none will be asked to live at home and commute to class.