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Gwathmey, Monroe Hill
Gain Upperclass Status

By SAM BARNES

CD/Jim Wilson

Monroe Hill Will House More Upperclassmen Next Year

our Monroe Hill dorms
Gwathmey House,
presently occupied by graduate
students, will be allotted to
upperclass undergraduates next
year, Housing Director Ralph
Main confirmed yesterday.

The Monroe Hill dorms to
be converted to upperclass use
are Venable, which will house
upperclass women, and
Guildersleeve, McGuffy and
Harrison, which will house
upperclass men. Gwathmey
will have upperclass women.

The move is intended to
maintain the present number
of spaces for upperclass
housing on the Grounds which
has been threatened by the
increasing number of first-year
students requiring dorm space.

The 200 graduate student
spaces being moved out of the
Monroe Hill complex and
Gwathmey will be replaced by
an equal number in the Copley
Hill area to be completed by
next fall.

The new complex will
contain 50 two-bedroom
apartments available to
graduate students, Mr. Main
said.

According to Mr. Main,
both Dunnington and Tuttle in
the Alderman Road dorm area,
which are presently occupied
by upperclass students,will be
filled by an over-flow of
first-year students next year.
The changeover will eliminate
over 200 spaces for
upperclassmen in the Alderman
Road area, he said.

The allotment of the
Monroe Hill spaces to
upperclass students, however,
create 100 additional spaces in
the central Grounds. This
provision, along with the
addition of 100 spaces in
Gwathmey, will result in little
or no loss in upperclass housing
spaces.

Resident Adviser Position

One upperclass resident
adviser position has been
created for Venable, with two
positions created for the other
three Monroe Hill dorms.
These positions will be filled
from the list of resident
assistant alternates or from
graduate assistant appointees
who presently are without
space, according to Assoc.
Dean of Students Chester R.
Titus.

Since students were not
aware that upperclass spaces
would be available in the
present graduate dormitories
and therefore did not request
spaces area, Mr. Main said the
Housing Office is allotting the
rooms as it sees fit to those
students remaining on the
Housing lottery list.

Mr. Main indicated that the
move had been pending for
some time but could not be
finalized until the size of next
fall's entering class and its
housing requirements were
known.

'No Better Way'

Mr. Titus said he thought
there was "no better way" of
accommodating for the student
housing need anticipated for
next year.