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Special Facilities

5. The facilities in the
Gwathmey dorm, where the men
would live were the complex
coeducated, has facilities
specifically designed for women. A
careful survey of the situation by
both the University Housing
Committee and some interested
students concluded that the extent
of "special facilities" were bathtubs
and a few rooms labelled ironing
areas whose special equipment
consisted of a few portable ironing
boards. If the girls living in
Alderman Road this year could
accommodate themselves to the
presence of urinals in the
bathrooms, one might expect that
the men could handle bathtubs and
ironing boards!

Not a single one of these reasons
or all of them together add up to
the kind of rationale for a
substantial and detrimental change
in the character of University
housing accommodations. The
reasons offered by the various
parties are so insufficient that one
ca only cone that another
reason, one which cannot be stated
in public, is the true cause of this
decision.