Commentary

'67; co-ed rooms no issue

To the Editor:

have read in the Review of April 12 that "the co-ed housing option might not be required to go before the GF... because no written rule prohibits co-ed housing." Certainly no written rule prohibiting co-ed housing was in the books the year (1967) I became an emeritus, the reason being that in all my forty-two years of service in the College faculty and for most of a quarter of a century thereafter co-ed housing was inconceivable.

Incidentally, I cannot desist from asking why the prospective innovation has been given the name of "co-ed housing," which is synonymous with the present "co-ed dormitories." Would it not be more accurate to call it "co-ed rooming?"

-Andrew Bongiorno (Professor of English, 1925-'67)

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