Standing on Morningalde Heights (100 blocks south of Baker Field), and always in danger of falling into the nation's biggest city, Columbia College for 200 years has maintained a precarious but successful existence.

Nearly 60 percent of the student body commutes and must therefore forego extra-curricular activities in favor of strap-hanging and traffic jamming.

The remaining 40 percent of the College comes under the influence of the New York skyscraper, since three such monsters on the campus house 500 undergraduates each.

The massiveness of these dormitories creates a special problem for the courting Lion. If Barnard College for Women is just across the street, Columbia parietal rules make it seem a very wide street. For Columbia's answer to the Herculean proctoring problem is simply to place the dorms strictly off limits to members of the opposite sex.

One answer to this uncooperative policy is the fraternity, which flourishes in spite of high rents and the commuter problem.