WOMEN STUDENTS
AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE THE BAN ON SMOKING (Special to Daily Times) AUCKLAND, July 19. Women students at Auckland University College have reluctantly accepted the ban placed by the Professorial Board on women smoking within the university precincts. In spite of the information from southern colleges that smoking in the women’s common rooms there is an accepted practice, the Professorial Board has officially intimated that the discussion may now be considered closed from its point of view. "I am afraid we have just got to accept the position,” one student said. “The board has written to us stating thit the matter cannot be brought before it again this year. Apparently the Students’ Committee cannot do anything about it, although it is supposed to be allowed to manage its own part of the students’ block. Judging from the tone of the correspondence it seems that nothing will shift the Professorial Board.” Although the consensus of opinion is that nothing more can be done this year, many of the young women are determined to reopen the question next year when it is felt that a change in the executive control of the Professorial Board may bring about “a change of heart.” “We shall start afresh in our fight for freedom in a matter which concerns only ourselves,” another student said. “ It is most annoying to feel that we are up against a stone wall, but after all nothing more can be done now. The Professorial Board has control and defiance would do no good.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22628, 20 July 1935, Page 14
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253WOMEN STUDENTS Otago Daily Times, Issue 22628, 20 July 1935, Page 14
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