More Relaxed

One notices immediately that the Bronx campus is more relaxed. A real campus, which includes several buildings and large lawns, encourages relaxation. Students and faculty are not crowded into a single, tall building, and they do not push into jammed elevators.

Co-education also improves the atmosphere. Like college women everywhere, girls at this school talk about marriage. But they seem to emphasize dating more, perhaps because they are confident of finding husbands eventually. Social life on the campus is healthy, both sexes agree. (Too healthy some authorities fear. As a result regulations forbid students to sit less than eighteen inches from each other on the college lawn. And Hunter enforces this rule; a student explained that the college employs one woman as the school's "necker checker."

Bronx classes also appear livelier than those in Manhattan. The intellectual level, is, however, higher on the Park Avenue campus; when the uptown branch became coed, it encouraged male applicants by admitting some with poor records.

Student Apathy

Although "student apathy" worries leaders on the Bronx campus as well as in the Park Avenue branch, clubs, house plans and sororities can boast moderate success. Candidates for student government office seldom run unopposed, unlike those on the other campus.

But even the more "normal" students in the Bronx can never forget their college's most distinguishing feature; Hunter is, inescapably, a collection of commuters. Facing east from almost any point on the Bronx branch, one sees the convenient subway tracks only a few blocks away.