University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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20 In a community which seeks to educate its students for life in a democratic society, the ideal living unit is not c: home away trom home , but a challenge to its residents, CI halt- WCIy house between home and the world . More important than any of the organizational or physical features of the Halls is the associa- tion with individuals of different training, dif- ferent ideas, and different outlooks. Within the little world of the dOImitory system are people from many places, of many levels of expeIience and sophistication, who have chosen many professions and have experienced as many different backgTounds 05 there are resi- dents in the Halls. The success of a housing system in an educational community such CIS Chicago is to be judged by the extent to which the residents meet and adjust themselves to this diversity. The ease in interpersonal com- munication which the dormitory system fosters will. it it '15 successiul, promote one of the highest purposes of the University: the under- standing and acceptance of diversity.

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Were one to combine scholastic rooms with tvied watts of stone and the imperturbqbte enthusiasm of college youth, he would realize Ct tine conception of the University Residence Halls. Although University Officials speak of the Halls in terms 01 integration of students and maturation, more than eight hundred residents consider the dormitories as simply the focal point of their University lives. There are sixteen dormitories in the residence hall system. Eight of these, which are within the Burton-Iudson Courts, stand across the Mid- way from Harper Memorial Library. Built in the early 1930's, the Courts cover one-third of a block and reach trom tour to six stories in height. More than a quarter million meals cue served annually in the two high-Ceilinged din- ing halls. Double-decker bunks, hi-fidelity sys- tems, and chIonic claustrophobic: UIe 011 on a B-I boy's order of the day. And histories prove that only once has 0 resident been rescued from atop the spiked gate which guards B-I's entrance in the pIe-dctwn hours. 21