Radcliffe S.G.A. Votes to Equalize Work Load for Off-Campus Houses

Camplaints from girls living in off-campus houses caused the Radcliffe Student Government Association yesterday to pass a resolution designed to equalize the burden of the work program for off-campus residents.

The controversy arose over the fact that off-campus girls assigned to eat one or two meals a day in the smaller brick dormitories are also required to assume a considerable share in waiting on table in the dorm where they eat.

These students, who also answer phones in their off-campus houses, complained that they are working more total hours than those off-campus girls who eat in the large dorms, where fewer or no extra waitresses are needed.

The new resolution states "that girls in off-campus houses wait-on in the brick dorms where they eat unless inconvenient to that brick dorm. The work chairman in the off-campus house is to apportion her work program so that the total number of work hours of each girl in the off-campus house is equal."

The Radcliffe work program is designed to keep down room and board costs by requiring each girl to spend approximately two to four hours a week working in her dorm or house--either answering phones or waiting on table. Most of the brick dorms require the off-campus girls who eat there to share in the extra burden of work that they create.

Girls Ask Reassignment

Emily B. Lacey, dean of residence, told the SGA that several off-campus girls have asked to be reassigned to Moors and Whitman for meals, because these dorms do not ask their non-resident diners to wait-on.

The new resolution does not attempt to standardize the work hours for the entire college. However, it is expected to equalize the amount of work done by the various residents of any one off-campus house.