Mr. Ralph Main's recent statement
that students who have lost
their roommates enjoy certain
options in obtaining their own
roommate or in keeping their room
as a single comes as a happy
surprise. But you will pardon me it
I admit to a bit of shock at reading
such a blatant contradiction between
Mr. Main's announced policy
and his actual endeavor to move
every single graduate student out of
the McCormick Road Houses, often
against their will, into the
Alderman Road Houses.
When my roommate moved into
the Monroe Houses at the beginning
of this semester, I asked Mr. Main
to allow me to keep my room as a
single. His answer, in light of
yesterday's statement, is confusing.
"Since we have several students in
the basement of the McCormick
Road Houses waiting to transfer to
the Alderman Road Houses, we will
not be able to allow students to
rent doubles as singles." Where
were your options then, Mr. Main?
And where were the options of
two law students in my suite who
were forced to move out of the
McCormick Road Houses even after
they made it very plain, even to Mr.
Main, that they didn't wish to
move? That hardly signifies long
lists of students "waiting to transfer
to the Alderman Road Houses."
The truth is, that Mr. Main has
run his office like the task master of
a chain gang, ordering students to
move who did not wish to move
and reserving his favorite word for
any students who wanted any kind
of a change in dormitories, "No."
Such unreasonableness has been our
exasperation since the beginning of
the year, and it's about time the
students began to react.
David L. Rowe
Graduate A&S
