The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-07
Management of the Dormitories
Causes Dissatisfaction.
STUDENTS OFFER OBJECTIONS.
Regents, Complaining of the Cost
of hoard, Declaring Tint steward
MnxneId Makes Himself Obnox-
Evils Rcmedied-wnve Comments

DissatIHfaetion has broken cut among
the students OF the University OF Washing
tor who live in the new dormitories.
For some time they have been complain
Ing about the management OF the dining
hall. As a result Of the alleged misuAn-
agement, petition signed by sixty-seve-,
out Of a possible seventy Of the students
woh live I'm the buildings will be presented
TO the regents at their next meeting.
In the petition. It ls said. the studehts
condemn the expensiveness of hoard I'm the
dormltories, and declare that G. +. Max
field, the steward has made himself per-
sonally obnoxious to them They ask the
regents, II IS said. to investigate the matter,
and remedy the evils.
In a long editorial on the subject. the
editors Of the Pacific Wave. the college
paper. uphold the cause OF the dissatisfied
students. After stating that the expense
OF living per month In the dormitories of
the Washington Agricultural college. IL 81. 80
10 sii0. OF the Puget Sound university,
sl25o. and 81 the University OF OREGON,
$40. the Wave says the cost at the Univer-
sity OF Washington reaches the BIS mark
every month. The reason for the alleged
difference between the cost at the univer
sity and the other colleges named is said
TO be due TO the fact that the dormitores
OF the other colleges are run on the CO.
operative plan by the students themselves.
Continuing. the Wave says:
AT the University of Washington, how
ever, II seems 10 be the idea OF some per-
sons that the dormitories should be run
Ia Waidorf-Astoria: and In order that each
and every want may be most fully attend
cd to 20. though there are only about
scventy-fivo boarders q steward and
stewardess, having no other official cares
except the management OF the dining hall
and womens dormitory. must he employed.
oh ~ bar, drax al hl.a
Furthermore. It cannot be the superior
quality OF the food served which renders
the expense 40 much above that in other
dormitories. for the students have been Nv
ing In private families where the board
was fully as good. II not better. than that
at the dormatories while the cost was but
little higher. Moreover, the present incum-
bent In the stewards ofice has failed 10
make himself agreeable and ohliging In
many respects, and even In fact seems to
have aniagonixad the students whenever
and wherever possible"
The Wave IN the closing paragraph OF
the editorial Is mildly sarcastic about the
regents fitness TO run tho dormtories 1t
says.
'Manlfestly the regents are not good
managers when II comes TO dormitories.
Either they have not the ability. the time.
or yet perhaps the personal interest in the
condition and management OF these dor
mitories 10 operate them properly, and II
would seem that they could save for
themselves much trouble and needless
anxiety by permitting those most vitality
Interested to have a voice In their man
agement."
II II admitted by the students that the
regents have been ionient In that the con-
troll OF the dormitories and the mainte-
nance OF the discipline have been left in
their hands. This IL accomplished by com
mittees Of students elected by the dormi-
tory inmates. Some OF the students, how
ever. said yesterday that this leniency was
only on the surface. and alleged that Pres
ident Graves had summarily dismissed a
prominent member Of the mems commit
tee this week without giving him an OPP
portunhy to defend himself against a
charge Of disorderly conduct.