'Cliffe Swap For Dunster Is Called Off Bunting Thinks Plan Would' Annoy Faculty

An attempt by Dunster students to organize a coed exchange with Radcliffe's off-campus houses for this Spring died two weeks ago when Mary I. Bunting, President of Radcliffe, and Alwin M. Pappenheimer, Master of Dunster House, expressed opposition to the plan.

"I felt it was kind of late, and we had a great big experiment going already," Mrs. Bunting said last night.. She was referring to three coed exchanges approved last month by the Faculty.

Pappenheimer said he had told his students that he was not enthusiastic about the plan, but would approve it if Mrs. Bunting did. "I couldn't quite see what it was supposed to prove," he said. "It would have been an awful lot of work for the secretaries here-We're very overcrowded in Dunster," he added.

Linda Shen '70, one of the plan's organizers, said last night that approximately 50 girls were willing to move from the off-campus dorms to Dunster, and that an equal number of men wanted to move to Radcliffe. She added that 85 to 90 per cent of the girls in the off-campus dorms were in favor of the coed plan.

"Our off-campus houses are pretty precious institutions and to give those places up to men would be unfair," Mrs. Bunting explained. "Some girls are quite upset about coed housing, and the off-campus houses are a refuge for them."

The three coed exchanges already plan-ned were approved by the Faculty at a special meeting Dec. 9, but the Dunster plan would also have required Faculty sanction. "The Faculty didn't enjoy the special meeting of Dec. 9 at all-I do feel they would be annoyed by another," Mrs. Bunting said.

Since the Faculty will decide on the Harvard-Radcliffe merger this Spring, Mrs. Bunting said she felt it was important not to antagonize them with a meeting on Dunster.

Commenting on Mrs. Bunting's reasoning, Miss Shen said, "The Dunster plan became a rather political issue, which was unfortunate."

Although Pappenheimer was opposed to the exchange for this Spring, he said he thought it would have been a success. "I think they would have had a wonderful time housekeeping together in those little houses up in Radcliffe."