Masters Change Living-Out Policy

The House Masters committee has abandoned a temporary policy allowing members of the Senior Class to live outside the Houses.

The decision cancelled out an original plan announced a year ago January that was intended to reduce the number of "forced commuters" and overcrowding in the Houses. The Class of 1959 was the only class affected.

Now, only veterans, or students with financial, marital, or health reasons that necessitate off-campus living will be eligible to live out. Veterans under the sixmonth military plan are not eligible to petition for outside-living permission.

According to some Senior Tutors, the policy of limited living out permission will probably be permanent. The ruling was clearly an emergency measure until the eighth House could ease overcrowding, the Tutors pointed out.

Most of the members of the Class of 1959 who are living out keep their House affilation on a "courtesy non-resident basis."