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Cliffies Favor Abolishing Curfew

Radcliffe undergraduates have voted in favor of allowing students freshman year to sign out till , in a College-wide opinion poll by the Radcliffe Government .

from more than 60 per cent College endorsed the Rules proposal by a two to one Helen S. A. Garvy '64, chairman. at the RGA meeting yesterday. one representative's charge vague wording of the choices up the voting" and said her will now "try to draw up a of revisions designed to many people as possible."

Radcliffe College Council the RGA constitution and by-laws, the group power to change the , the Rules Committee will final proposal late in May. If decides to defer action on the next fall, the rules changes to wait till then.

The poll, approximately 400 students supported the Rules Committee's stand that "each student is responsible for her own behavior" and that curfew rules compromise individual judgment.

Two hundred voters approved an alternate proposal drawn up by Carol E. White '64. Declaring that "the supposition that Radcliffe girls are intelligent, responsible adults is largely false." Miss Write suggested several minor changes in the present rules but urged the RGA to retain curfew regulations.

The other 100 votes split about equally between those who wanted to keep the current system and those who disagreed with both proposals and offered other suggestions for revising the rules.

The Rules Committee will spend the next month reading through polls and continuing to collect opinions from the student body. If the students who have not yet voted choose to turn in their ballots. Miss Garvy said, their opinions will be considered. She maintained, however, that the present total is representative and that percentages would not be changed significantly by later returns.