University Students Petition for Club Control
A campus dispute at the University of Washington boils over as students demand the return of a student-run boarding system, citing hygiene and quality concerns.
The trouble among the university boys over their alleged misuse by their landlady at the boarding house on the campus is still rife, and a petition for the abandonment of the boarding house and the restoration of the club system is about to be presented to the president. Mrs. L. M. Larsen, the keeper of the boarding house, claims the students are unfair and that she provides substantial food at an affordable price. However, students counter that they desire the autonomy of a student-run kitchen, arguing that previous management under a student steward was both cleaner and more economical than the current arrangement.
“It is not fancy board that we students want, but plain, substantial food, well cooked, and plenty of it three times a day.”
Conflicts over the cost and quality of student housing, as well as the tension between institutional control and student autonomy, remain constant themes in the University of Washington's history.
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