Show W problems of the girl students t by JEAN NEWTON AA AA AA V 4 V COMES word from a college that has recently become coed that the girl students have been forbidden to talk to the ment on the face of it the ruling Is al most unbelievable in its suggestion of the antediluvian one reason for coeducation la the innocuousness of the familiar in other words it Is the very intimacy of the dally association of the two sexes which it Is hoped will wear ott self consciousness cultivate the habit of working side by side without being discontented by each other supply that familiarity which forearms for necessary associations when school days are over and when poise in the presence of the other sex may be a matter of success or failure people who do not believe in that theory will not approve of course of coed institutions but to establish an institution as coed and then make a ruling that the women students must not speak to the men well inconsistency sis tency to my mind Is a mild term for it the fact of the matter Is that at the college in question there are two thousand male students and fifty coeds t in the light of which there Is special interest to this remark of the dean on the ban on girls talking to the would net have been so bad it they bad only talked to one boy at a time but when they stopped to talk ta one they were soon chatting with seven or eight I 1 small wonder we are impelled to say when the ratio Is one to forty and for remedy they threaten to expel any girl who hesitates even for an instant on the campus walks or in the corridors of the college buildings to exchange words with a male student to cure a girl of talking to eight boys at once they forbid her to speak to even one to cure boys of flocking around the girls eight to one they forbid a word with a garl short sighted would be a mild word the logical remedy of course for such a complaint as eight boys nock ing around a girl Is more girls in the college so many girls that the boys will become used to them and hence more or less indifferent and for the girls the remedy Is to let them to the boya until the novelty wears off when they will get down to business oblivious to the boy world isn t that the way it usually works out S by th bell syndicate inn |