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Recommendations

The Student Council earnestly recommends two changes in University regulations:

a. Permitting women visitors in rooms on the Lawn and Ranges and in dormitory buildings
during certain hours. The Council feels that as there are practically no recreational
facilities provided by the University for the major part of the student body, there is a
real need for some place where students can entertain visitors. The Council believes
that if a suitable arrangement could be made, such regulations could be enforced by the
dormitory counselors.

b. The abolition of the rule requiring chaperones in fraternity houses. This recommendation
is not made because the Council feels that chaperones per se are objectionable, but principally
because of the practical difficulty in obtaining a sufficient number of chaperones.
There are 27 fraternity houses on the Grounds, at which chaperones are required two nights
a week. In a city the size of Charlottesville, it is extremely difficult - if not impossible
- to obtain 54 chaperones each week. As an alternative to this, the Council
recommends that the University devise some plan to furnish chaperones, or at least to
assist fraternities in procuring them.