"It ruins what's good about off-campus living." Complained one Radcliffe junior when she was told about the plan to require girls living in off-campus houses to pay for three meals a day next year.

A junior in Shepard house said she could not afford to pay twice for each meal and would miss "the human experience of cooking." "I'm trapped," one sophomore squealed. "I live off-campus because I don't want to have anything to do with the dorms." An irate junior in Henry House shrieked, "I can't promise you anything printable"

Most Cliffies questioned felt that Radcliffe's large deficit made the increase in board costs inevitable, but mourned the loss of flexible meal schedules and the informality of off-campus dining.

A few of the more militant ones, however, thought that the move which would compel off-campus residents to eat in the dorms, reflected an official plot against the joys of off-campus living.

Girls already off-campus almost unanimously plan to stay where they are or will try to move to private apartments if they can. "I don't think a lot of people will go rushing back to the brick dorms. I know I won't," said an off-campus sophomore. Another groaned, "The college may be losing money, but I'd lose my sanity back in a dorm."

Those who are still living in the brick dorms, however, seem to have lost their incentive to move off-campus. "I just can't see hiking through the snow to breakfast," one junior commented.

A senior resident in one of the off-campus houses said that she thought the change was "a necessary thing," adding, it's too cold to picket."

One off-campus senior who will escape next year's board rise gloated, "I'm glad I'm graduating.