University of Northern Iowa - Old Gold Yearbook (Cedar Falls, IA)

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Built with the aim in view of providing suitable living quarters for a large proportion of the women students in attendance at Iowa State Teachers College, Bartlett Hall stands as the largest single building on the campus. Extending for over four hundred feet along the north border of the campus, and having four wings each a hundred feet in length, it provides facilities for housing better than five hundred students. The building has the best of modem facilities — showers, steam heat, janitor service and other equally valuable aids to comfort- able existence. Recreational facilities are also adequately provided for. The Blue Kitchen and the Yellow Kitchen each have neces- sary equipment for the holding of small informal parties and buffet suppers, and are widely used by the various women's so- cial groups on the campus. In the Green and Rose living rooms the girls may spend time comfortably lounging, or entertaining masculine friends in the afternoon and early evening. In a small recreation room off the Blue Kitchen, ping-pong tables and other equipment are provided. Pag© 30

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 Let's go to the Commons is rapidly becoming a constant by-word among students, particularly on Friday and Saturday nights when nothing has been previously arranged. Wider and more varied use has been made of the Commons this year than at any other time since its construction. With interest in its use on the increase, a movement has been started for a more open Commons among the more socially-minded campusites. As yet, however, no definite policies have been developed as a result of this movement. Dancing is not the only use to which the Commons is put. Social sororities, faculty men's clubs, and faculty women's clubs hold their regular meetings in rooms especially provided for that purpose. Sunday afternoons find the ball- room devoted to leisure hour concerts provided by prominent members of the music faculty, and hobby groups and student forums meet during the week in the ballroom or the spacious Georgian lounge to discuss topics of student interest. At noon, long lines fill the corridors of the Commons as hundreds of girls file in to look for that long-expected letter at the mail box. Other lines follow the stairway to the cool cafeteria below where excellent food is regularly served. Special dining rooms are provided for dinner parties, and the master minds of the institution — the faculty — have a dining room reserved especially for them. Upstairs, just across from the ballroom, is that indispensable thirst- quenching station, the fountain, where students may grab a coke or a malted between dances, or have a snack at noon. Minus a social director since the early part of the winter term, the Commons has not seemed like the same place. Students, faculty, and administrators alike miss the cheerful and capable presence of Miss Janet Works, who re- signed her position late in December to accept an offer from Princeton Uni- versity at Trenton, New Jersey, of a place in that institution. The line — crowded Coke drinkers between dances Commons pearl divers The ball room on Friday night

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 Spring at the wing door Green living room fireplace Study date at the libe ? The smoothness of operation of such a large dormitory must naturally be largely a student function directed by capable heads. In addition to the direc- tors of Bartlett Hall, there has been formulated the Bartlett Hall Council with officers and committee chairman who direct the activities of the dormitory as a whole. With the end in view of obtaining group interest and cooperation, the various class groups, especially the freshmen, have been given rooms in the same section of the building. To aid the residents in adjustment and to aid in keeping discipline, corridor chairmen and Senior advisors handle many of the smaller matters of adjustment, and problems of keeping order as well as direct- ing activities in which their particular corridor takes part. This plan of direction has been found to be a very successful method of making arrangements for the betterment of the dormitory as a place in which the girls may live and study to their own best advantage and that of their neighbors, and will continue in operation as an important part of campus administration. As an important part of the year's activities, Bartlett Hall annually sponsors several dances to which the girls invite their own guests. Those of the schedule for the year 1937-1938 were the fall dance, termed the ''Spooks Spree'' and held during the last of October, and a pleasant dance in the early part of April which carried the name of ”Co-ed Capers. Pag© 31