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More Pe. Houses Bought by Amy Jones and Sue Frost the completion of the houses A great deal of land along Union The girls who are to fill these and Pennsylvania Avenues is houses are now temporarily owned by WMC. This past June the housed on 4th floor storage rooms. college added to its ownership of in Whiteford and in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Avenue houses by House 199. They should be able to purchasing several additional move out in approximately two 'houses weeks. Graduate students will be moving into Pennsylvania House They will be used to house the 199 on September 24th so it is freshman girls who sent in late essential that t.he students be housing information or were on the settled in the new houses by then. waiting list. This could bring about One small problem which came some controversy since many about has to do with Pennsylvania upperclassmen has been on a House 189. It was to be done before waiting list for these houses. but school commenced but un- . seem fairly content as to where fortunately wasn't. Dean Laidlaw : they are now located. called each girl who would be staying in Whiteford Hall the day before orientation to inform them of their temporary housing arrangements. She assured them of the same essentials normally found in the Pennsylvania Houses: a desk, dresser, bed, and a closet. The first three items weren't brought until the late afternoon of the eighth when the incoming traffic had ended. Five days later ~I~:~::t;:S~kSrac~~r~adde~~~~~~: clothes were hung on the door stop and on a small pipe next to the by John Wilcox them off until the flames had the crowd began to shift from the getting close enough to put out the doorway. What began as a celebration of almost died down A police officer football game to the section party furniture. At that point, the officer the Baltimore Colts victory over from the Westminster force controversy which has caused approached the students and or- An obvious drawback of having the New England Patriots on arrived on the scene and tried to tension' on the Western Maryland dered them to move. When they did girls living in these storage rooms not, fioremen attempted to spray is the lack of storage space for the ~~~~~trailrnt a~ur~~dr~~t~ :r ~~f~~~~~~li~~ t~~ll~Oaft~r T~; ~:~~s ~~;:~~td~~~eZ~ t~~ water over the barracade into the other residents of the dorm. Bikes students gathered on the quad to hoses were turned on the students hundred fifty and three hundred, fire. This effort angered the men had been kept in the luggage room protest recent social restrictions and the officer began swinging his became more agitated, a sofa was and they began to force the until the first dorm meeting when ;;::~~~~~tiO~y the college ad- ~~gh~i~~~:h~~m:;:r~r=r~~~ dragged onto the quad. It was set fireman back. Many students all bikers were ordered to remove began tugging on the hose stret- their bikes from the luggage room The ~~o~~es ~~Ju~~re slogans incident. ~!~~~i~~u~~~ck\re~~~e1utagd ched across the quad. The police and keep them in their own rooms concerning Dean C. Wray Around 12:30 PM, dozens of - quad Head Resident Oeorae Metz. officer then moved into the scuffle until the storage rooms are Mowbray's decision to withhold students appeared on the quad and Fire Dept. Responds brandishing his billy club. available official approval for open parties began cheering in response to the Soon another couch and a chair in the fraternity sections. During Colt's exciting 34 to 'l7 victory in were lit in front of B-section Several students were hit but For the freshman girls there are the disturbance, two couches were the Monday_ Night F'ootbaJI game MacLea. The flames soon reached none appeared to be hurt. At one advantages and disadvantages to set afire on the quad. When of the week. As more people a height of ten to fifteen feet and point, the policeman raised his living in the new houses. One firefighters arrived to extinguish stepped out of Daniel MacLea and the fire department was called club to strike a student, but he was advantage is the spaciousness of the blaze, students formed a Albert Norman Ward Halls, the Two pumpers responded but the bowled over by another man. The each house. There is plenty of the to arrest attempted human wall and successfully held shouting increased and the focus of crowd prevented the crews from officer but the crowd allowed him room to move around and enough to study, which you don't quietness tackler Section Parties Eliminated; to get away. expect the first year of college. l an~iret~:n~he~h~r:ne:!~~:d h~~~ !~J~~~:ads~;a~e:~; i~s a n~~~~ Mowbray Maintains Position students. This dispersed the Because t~f this, s?me of the girls gathering and the fire was ex- would ra er stay III the dorm or In By John Wilcox stipulate that all parties on last year the Dean noted a wor- tinguished :~~o~~!~~:~he house (199), move The social atmosphere this year campus shall end at 1:00 A.M. In sening of the situation. He twice at western Maryland College will addition, the college's liquor discussed the matter with the apparently be quite different from, license, which was obtained for the Student Government Assoication that of previous years, as operation of the Pub, allows the last year and meet with the Ponticss In Print fraternity section parties seem to serving of beer and light wine only Executive Committee last week: be a thing of the past. Although until 1:00 A.M. The provisions of Mowbray stated that he would rumors circulating about the the permit apparently apply to meet with representative of the Ms. Yula Ponticas' manuscript, One, Ms. Jarceylnn Smith is campus credit "the new alcohol social functions as well as the fraternities this week. "If I can---Why Can't You?" was currently a sophomore at WMC. policy" with the change, Dean of commerically-run Pub. This shut- Pre--1913 Policy? published in the Spring 1978 issue Student Affairs C. Wray Mowbray down time is the ony new When asked about campus of The Maryland Teacher. The A follow up to Ms. Ponucas's unique described that a maintains that the crack-down is regulation to appear in the W.l\IC reaction, Mowbray indicated a article at Western High School in article was television Susan White, did program journalist Baltimore the result of stricter enforcement policy concerning the use of wait-and-see attitude "I am Baltimore in which the sign a news feature. on the Western of existing regulations. alcohol >'" perfectly prepared to go back (to language of the deaf is taught to High School program=Incidently a SAO Refuses Section Parties "Attitude of abuse" the no-alcohol policy of pre-1973 hearing high school students. As a WMC alumnus (graduate Since 1973, the campus' four Mowbray, who was responsible WMC), he said, but I don't want result of this course many young program), 1\1s. Sharon Donnelly, is fraternities have held open parties for the liberalization of Western that. I want to see some change. 1 in their clubrooms on a fairly Maryland's alcohol polic in 1973 don't know if this is the best way. people have developed a' career in charge of the Western High regular basis. These parties, held (before that date, no drinking was But something has to be done." interest in the field of deafness. School sign language program every weekend, were subject to allowed on campus) and was in- approval by the Student Affairs strumentaJ in the fight to lower Office. This semester, however, Maryland's beer-drinking age to Frat Presidents React the SAO has refused to approve eighteen, voiced fears that some parties in the sections. Instead, the, members of the college com- by M.ry Hoyle student body is the one of attending hand-during the past few years" events may be held in common munity have come to feel that the Dean Mowbray's recently parties in the Forum of Decker but that the whole student body areas such as the new Decker use of alcohol is a privilege to be restated alcohol policy has College Center as oppposed to the should be consulted before a final College Center or the cafeteria. used without regard for the rights produced varied reactions among clubroom in the fraternity sec- decision is made. In explaining the Student Affairs of others. "It's not an instance of WMC's fraternity officers. Phi tions. Wayne Lowman felt that the Gradual Change Office's new stance, Mowbray abuse, it's an attitude of abuse," he Delt president Bo McWilliams and Forum party Sunday was "too Vince Wesley can see Mowbray's cited instances in which open stated. Alcohol abuse.. Mowbray Bachelor president Vince Wesley plastic" and that the clubroom point of. view because of the state section parties were said to result continued, "is very much the . both could see Dean Mowbray's offers a "more individual and laws on alcohol and went on to in violations of campus responsibility of the college and point of view, but are anxious to relaxed atmosphere." Vince explain that the policy has always regulations. He expressed concern this office. The Student Affairs meet and discuss the policy. Ron Wesley expressed an opinion that been there but hasn't been en- that minors from off-campus were Office is trying to indicate the Bowen, president of the Betes, was the Forum parties won't be as forced to this degree. He proposes attending the parties and that beer students'responsibilities." . taken by surprise by the policy and intimate because "clubroom that this change be a gradual one the .dean was distrubted that was being taken from the sections, Mowbray commented that in "failed to keep in touch during the parties distinguish one fraternity instead of such an abrupt one for In addition from another." resulting in a litter problem. years past, a rather informal summer" as he had promised. , that since the Forum parties he feels the general happiness of the must Mowbray also stated that damage. communication existed between Preacher vice-president Wayne . end at 1:00, "people will end up student bodv to college facilities, particularly in his office and the four fraternities. Lowman felt that the policy continuing the parties in the Daniel MacLea Hail, prompted the. While formal regualtions COil- "discriminates against frater- sections anyway." The officers agree that a large action cerning section parties were on the nities as organizations" and Democratic Approach Needed portion of the student body will - books, some leeway was allowed. deprives the student body of an A democratic approach to the soon tire of Forum parties. Wayne The late hours of Iast'