HOUSING DISPUTE HISTORY

March 11, 1966: Radcliffe residence office announces an "experiment" to allow 20 Radcliffe seniors to live in their own apartments providing they are 21.

April 13: Seventy-one seniors apply for 20 places in the apartment quota. Residence office institutes a drawing for the places and increases the quota to 30.

March 30, 1967: Radcliffe seniors no longer have to be 21 to have off-off-campus apartments.

April 20: Applications for 36 off-off-campus places skyrocket from 71 to 125.

May 11: Beginning of five-day hunger strike protesting the quota system for allowing seniors to have their own apartments. Twenty-seven Cliffies fast to demand that all seniors have option to live in non-college housing.

May 16: Mrs. Bunting appoints Ad Hoc Committee on Housing comprised of Faculty, students, administration, and alumnae to arbitrate the housing dispute.

June 5: Radcliffe College Council rejects Ad Hoc Committee's proposal to give all seniors the option to live in apartments.

Nov. 28: Financial report disclosed by Mrs. Bunting indicates that Radcliffe could afford to let 5% of Radcliffe's senior class live in apartments if they helped to pay for administrative expenses.