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Show WOMEN'S RESIDENCE HALLS: CARLSON AND CENTRALTRYING TO PROVIDE A LIVABLE WORKABLE COMPLEX FOR WEENING THE NEW AND SOMETIMES HOMESICK STUDENTBeing so far from the campus proper, girls fromCentral Hall use the lounge at Ballif for theirwaiting or stopping off point on the way home.Skirted by a verdant golf course, nestling in flowering trees, rising in brick and glass on a hill overlooking the city, Ballif Hall is the center of campus housing and the home of over 300 students. But these 300 are only a fraction of the total 700 students living on the campus. These students are housed in the new Ballif Hall, and the temporary wood buildings of Men's, Wasatch, Uintah, and Douglas halls for men. Carlson Hall on University St. and Central Hall, housed in an old Fort Douglas hospital at a great distance from the center of the campus, are used to house women students.In the dorms, a troop of maintenance people sweep the cigarette ends and potato chip packages off of the floor and try to keep the halls, lavatories, recreation and public areas clean. In the rooms, "Madame Butterfly" vies with "Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley." Some students read, many play cards. Footballs are tossed about at 1:00 a.m. and "We want food!" is occasionally written on the windows of the "Ptomaine Tavern" as Ballif and Central residents fondly call their cafeteria. In the cafeteria, uniodized salt and breaded everything is served. But members of the staff try to make up for any deficiency by being friendly, even while the hated meal tickets are checked at each meal.The dorms offer a valuable experience to freshmen who are away from home for the first time. Here friendships are made. To facilitate this social orientation function of the residence halls, at least two athletes, or "Animals" as many of them are called, are placed in each section of Ballif. A little social drinking also takes place, but offenders are heavily fined. Also fined are the men who try to sneak into the girls' dorms by way of the fire escape. All in all, the dorms offer an experience in social living which can never be forgotten.ta:f..«*rS!lippiiMiiiiiiypipi^iiiiiJ^ii^â- KSiStiissCentral Hall's amiable and watchful housemother, Mrs. Hopkins . . .186Outside the halls are numerous areas for recreation. |
