Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1919 — ONE “DATE” A WEEK ENOUGH, IS ULTIMATUM. [ARTICLE]

ONE “DATE” A WEEK ENOUGH, IS ULTIMATUM.

Greencastle, Ind., Oct. 16.—Thou shalt have dates on only one night through the school week.” It is the Women’s Self-Governing Associa* tion’s ultimatum. And now; among the coeds of DePauw, there is, verily much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Women students at the Methodist university have had their collective judgment on the matter of dates weighed in the balance and found wanting. The Women’s Self-Gov-erning executive board did the weighing. Jhe one date through the week order resulted. 'Several weeks ago it was rumored that the faculty and administration officials were not a little worried over the marked tendency among the students to “date up” at every opportunity. President Gross warned that too great a percentage of the student body spent the evenings listening to “cricket concerts. Dean Alvord urged the upper class women to set the freshmen women a good example by “dating” only, on weekSaturday night the Women’s SelfGoverning association’s executive board was called into session. The members were told that lack action on their part would result in faculty dictum; Theboardacted. Now any coed who has a date on any night other than on Tuesdaywill be summoned before the board and punished. If the young women of the school do not obey the new “date rule” it is said, that more stringent measures f will be adopted.