LETTE,.RS TO THE E _ OITOR

'BEIN IS BEHIND TIM&::,

To the Editor:

A5 a student at Otterbein College I can say that it is as nice a place as any person could ~sk to attend with one exception: we are not allowed to have dances on the campus. It seems that the Board of Truster,s is stressing a point here in an r ·1 fashioned way which should be .0rrected as soon as possible.

The majority of Otterbein students are working their way at least partly through school and are required to watch their money quite closely. The fraternities and sororities have their formal dances in the spring and other smaller dances throughout the year. Their formal dances alone cost on an average of five dollars a couple and this money is spent outside the city of Westerville. This makes a total of fifteen hundred dollars which the students pay to have only a part of their dances. This price could be lowered a great deal if the college would consider renting the gym to the students.

The lnter,Sorority and Fraternity councils might after a year or so of single dances find that by combining their money they could hire a noted dance orchestra for one half the price of the present dances. This would bring cooperation from the entire school and cause Otterbein to rate much higher in the eyes of the present day prospective

-March 24, 1920 freshmen. The spirit of the school would be raised to some extent and I believe the faculty and student body would be brought closer together.

At the present time Otterbein does not have any great program committee to plan social activities on the campus and this encourages students to leave Westerville when seeking amusement.

I believe that there are many good points behind my argument, and if anyone feels that this is only the opinion of one person, let them visit the fraternities on date nights, or Williams Grill any evening of the week, or the Dale in Columbus and they will find a larger number of Otterbein students dancing than they may realize.

Fred

Good

-April 18, 1941