Overwhelming Eli Student Majority Approves Brewster's Coed Program

Yale President Kingman Brewster's proposal for coeducation received over-whelming approval from Yale students Monday night.

Brewster proposed that the 250 freshmen women be housed on the freshman campus in one of the dorms. The other 250 transfer students would have the option of living in the residential colleges or off-campus.

A Planning Committee on Women's Education was set up by Brewster to study plans for co-ed housing. The committee consists of Mrs. Elga Washerman, assistant dean of Yale Graduate School, Henry Chauncey, special assistant to the president, two professors and two students not yet named.

Although all the colleges registered approval for the idea of co-ed housing, Brewster warned that not all colleges can expect women in residence. "There will have to be at least 60 women in each college," he said, which will only involve four colleges at the most." This would mean that some colleges would get no women and instead would have to take in extra men.

Two of the colleges, however, had already voted to give up one third of their space for women residents. In Pierson and Dwight Colleges 80 per cent of the students said they would either move off-campus or crowd to make the room available. John Hersey, Master of Pierson College is sending in a plan for the consideration of the Committee allowing women residents in Pierson.

Dissension to Brewster's proposal for coeducation has come from a small group of students in Bradford college who have organized the Committee for a Responsible Coeducation Policy. Principally the group wants to postpone coeducation at Yale until 1970.

Brewster's new proposal is in response to the angry reaction of students to his initial proposal that Trumbull College men scatter among the other residential colleges to allow women to completely occupy that dorm.