Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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Brown slowly faces up to a housing crisis in space and quality, and a breakdown in community relations. By the fall, the university approves a coed housing project, discards in loco parentis, discusses renovation in cur- rent dorms and plans for new resi- dences. It creates a community rela- tions board, halts the off-campus flow, and returns to the concept of a residential college. The $4.3 million Bryant purchase promises to mitigate land and housing shortage without harming the local community. Coed College Diman-Pi Lamb, one of the country's most progressive coed projects, and the lvy League's first, meets students desires to live in a mature and normal manner. With the prospect of campus-wide coed living and new apartment-type hous- ing for students, Brown has a chance to demonstrate its leadership in creat- ing an environment appropriate for an institution of higher learning.

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Rents rise from $30 to $200. Fam- ilies suffer relocation to South Providence. The number of flats sub- let to students doubles in three years. Urban removal with tacit Brown ap- proval. Three times housing committees affirm that Brown is no longer a residential college. Fourteen percent of Brown's undergrads move off- campus. Local citizens thwart the U's attempt to build a parking garage in their midst. Enrollment rises by 1600 in a decade; projections call for 7000 stu- dents by the late seventies. Yet hous- ing spaces increase by only 600 since '61 with conditions as absurd as ever. During Commencement, one alumnus staying in the West Quad asked, Do students actually live in here all year long?

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7 Illlllllllllb 4 lt doesnt take long for most students to realize the abysmal lack of facilities at Brown. For instance, have you ever tried . . . finding a parking space seeing a Cornell game at Meehan watching a play or movie in Faunce House pit using library facilities for physics and bio simultaneously receiving immediate medical aid at Andrews House if you're a girl finding a small humanities course which interests you meeting members of your coordinate institution living in most university housing attending a class in Whitehall Nevermore, quoth the Raven. Brown has launched its $92 million capital funds drive to build long overdue projects and implement the liberated curriculum. On the docket are decade-old plans for