Dining Hall Boycott By Bertram Fizzles

Residents of Bertram Hall, outraged at being sent from their own dining room into Briggs for lunch, Monday organized a boycott of the South House dining room. This effort to resist house dining appears to have collapsed, although Bertram still solidly opposes the change.

The boycott is based on the Bertram girls' conviction that their dorm is an exceptional place, that the "friendly, relaxed atmosphere at lunch is one of the nicest things about Bertram." The move to Briggs was thought inconvenient and unnecessary, and made Bertram "no better than an off-campus house."

The gesture of protest failed, most girls thought, because it was neither well-organized nor well thought out. "Nobody seems to care much; Bertram is so small, anyway," one girl moaned.