Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-02-18
HOUSING NEEDS FOR GIRLS
 AT UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

At present there are enrolled at the University of Arizona four hundred and eight women. The campus has two dormitories for women-North Hall accommodating 32, and Maricopa Hall accommodating Fl, and by mak- ing use of three-room annex, six more are taken care of. There are three fraternity houses in each of which are some twenty young women and the house mother. This leaves a number who must live off the cam pus. In some cases parents have talk en residence in Tucson during the col lege year, there students find homes with relatives and these are included with the list of students residing in Tucson. The University has this year, however, been obliged to find living quarters for from thirty to forty young women in private homes. When Maricopa Hall is completed the present attendance of women at, the University can be housed on the cam pus, but this makes no provision for the certain increase in attendance next year.
 In many University towns approved rooming houses are opened in which, as in fraternity houses, the house mother is directly responsible to Uni versity authorities; dormitory rules are observed and the arrangement works out satisfactorily because the landlady is sure of desirable tenants throughout the college year. But this arrangement is not possible in Tucson because a householder can realize a larger return from five months ten ancy by winter visitors than students can afford to pay for nine months. The result is that the University ot Arizona students living in private homes in Tucson are scattered about two or three in a place and super vision of their activities is most diff ficult.
 There is much to be said in favor of campus residence. It is less ex- pensive for the student; the average college girl is too young to be turned out to lead an independent life. Ii she lives in a private home she is com pelled to assume responsibilities and make decisions that are beyond her years and experience. In the dorml- tories the house mother knows at all times where the girls are; their re- creation, their study and their health are given careful oversight. The matter of health is most important one. An experienced Dean of Women in large university reports that dur ing the influenza epidemic all the deaths in that university were among girls living in homes where there was no regular health supervision.
 From the point of view of students welfare the University of Arlzona faces the necessity of housing it's non resident students on the campus From the point of view of larger use fitness to the people of the State the University should be able to o11er suitable housing accomodations to all voung women of Arizona who are ac- ceptable students. In assigning rooms m the campus no dormitory space IS uiven to any save residents of ATT zona until after September first. Tn spite of this the dormitories were Ill ed in 1920, and at the beginning or the first semester many Arizona girls who wrote to the Registrar asking for accommodations had to be refused ana at least ten young women actually came to the University to enroll ana because there was no room for them went away.
 Are we going to compel the girls Of Arizona to either give up receiving college education or to go to a ne,gh- boring State in order to secure It!
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