WOMEN UNDERGRADUATES

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 258, 29 July 1939, Page 6 (Supplement)

WOMEN UNDERGRADUATES

Demand More Freedom At Oxford Parliament

Oxford's undergraduate Parliament, meeting for the first time, unanimously passed a Bill demanding more freedom for women undergraduates, says "The Daily Mtril,” London.

Proposals in the Bill include the right for wojnen to: Stay out of college till midnight without special permission and without having to state where tiny are going:

Invite men visitors to their rooms any day between lunch-time and dinnertime and to common rooms till 10 p.m., without special permission; Provide alcoholic drinks irt mixed parties in college; Take part in amateur theatricals in men’s colleges and have men take part in theirs;

Live in unlicensed lodgings, as men are allowed to do; Wear more modern dress for examinations.

Miss Brendtr Gimson, of St. Hugh’s College, president of the Women Students and a member of the Labour Club, said that the conditions they advocated

were taken for granted by most women between the ages of 18 and 21.

She pointed out that while they could visit men friends in college between 1 p.m. and 7 p.m., they could not invite them back without humiliating conditions, such as checking in and out and being surrounded by locked doors. The dress they had to wear for examinations made them look as if they were going to their own funerals.

Au amendment to the Bill was accepted that the number of women admitted to the university should be increased.

Representatives of the men’s colleges asked for qualified nurses in each college and a scheme similar to National Health Insurance to provide free medical and dental benefits. When representatives of various societies proposed the establishm- nt of an art centre, a Jesus College undergraduate opposed on the ground that it would be “yet another matrimonial agency.”