University of Virginia Library

Combined Treatment

If Housing has its doubts about
the staying power of the women,
the Office for Student Affairs does
not. They greeted the newcomers
with a program of "equal and combined
treatment," meaning that administratively,
the women will be
treated as same as the men. Student
Affairs has acquired a new Associate
Dean, female, but the new policy
says that she will confer with male
students as well as female. This will
be the case, theoretically, with the
other deans.

All of this has come to pass over
the short summer. What will happen
during the long year?

The first and foremost change is
that there will actually be girls
around. Not a lot of girls, but a
good sight more than has ever been
seen around here before, with the
possible exception of a big weekend.
There will be girls eating lunch
with you, girls walking down the
street, up the street, on the grass,
girls sitting on the lawn, girls living
next door, girls living upstairs, girls
standing on the corner, girls sitting
on the wall at the Corner, girls
alone at the movies, girls in your
chem lab, your history class, your
seminar. No longer will lingering
looks be few and far between, no
longer will you hear so many dirty
jokes in class, no longer will you
scream into your pillow at night
after seeing one too many a pair of
hairy legs.

The female presence is present.
How will it change the attitudes of
the males? Will coat and tie make a
comeback, or will dress continue its
casual trend? Will manners or language
improve? Will half the University
be constantly on the make?
Time and tribulations will tell the
tale, but undoubtedly there are
changes coming.