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In compliance with Title IX regulations st concerning sexual equality in educational )ia institutions, "you're supposed to have ar almost as many men's spaces as women's ch spaces," Wertz said. The Title IX Institute services federally Lf funded primary and secondary schools, ra including USC, in accordance with the H< Higher Education Acts of 1965. ha co FIGURES at the end of 1978 showed there fic were 3,348 men living irt USC residence halls, as com Dared to 3.800 women Mpri's i housing had to be increased, according to frc Wertz. "We are not really complying unless an we get that (ratio) up there," he added. po "Title IX requires us, by law, to provide La equal housing," according to Jo Foster, sti m &* &4 & ?"""' , '< V V V V V H te * * * * 41 > 4 * 4 >4 > S v V V V V V 1 u *? c% %?* y*. \Wkw v v v *-** >: \ .. v4 V. 41 *7# -t - ^W W V v 4 HR* 4 * -4 ' %. < % / - * y . VV V V VV' v oBr# ' * \?s * < < * ft'.j % vX |g?^H? : ;;:|||g|gg|p.-, ^piiBL^feiplip |g:> x;-;flBI^HB^^BI : --* " H' ? ?'i * to be mc ?sociate director of Residential Life Serces for women. The male-to-female ratio I ISP ctllHontc to 1 I?1' " id auuui nan UilU Ilttll, oster said. , Dr. James Campbell, vice president of udent Affairs, said Laborde "historically j is had a low rate of returning students," id "would be the least argued about ioice.M Residential Life Services studies show iborde has a "less than 50-percent-return te," Wertz said. In comparison, Bates ( )use and Columbia Hall, both coed dorms, j ve a return rate of 80 to 90 percent, ac- j rding to Residential Life Services of- ? ials. c LABORDE is one of the "smallest units" >m which residents can be "shifted back f J X* At. - ?1? - * u lorin wunout disrupting a whole r pulation of students," Wertz said. ^ iborde, which currently houses 240 s idents, was converted to a women's dorm r ?.?r 4 y v' -'' * H- v iV **? * * '*% V * ? ? * <v # ^ V * * . * >^ : B ? * v * ** * ? * v fflHV * *? * *> % ' * ? SB % *?>, v' , < ' vB * i*i? life * * # * 7 < ' V ?. - * V ' ,' H ^y-v * . * >; vl ' s \ * * t t ' , n * * ? * > * ' ^ ' ? I MB% V * ' H > i! ff * '\ v ..?-B T* *aar * -' i ' h x. 'i 1 . BMflni ? ? | i ?? Br!>>*-''^lJ^H:'<:s':-:. : : >: v^wvv^ ile dorm in 1976. It was built as a male dormitory in 1958. Laborde will undergo other residency changes if space is needed for female students in the future, Wertz said. Displaced Laborde residents will be offered room signup after other returning residents in female and coed dormitories, according to David MaCaulay, associate iirector of men's housing. "It's not a bad " ??~r< 1 ?:j "hi ? iiicinative, mdv^duidy sain. iney nave io 'lear out anyway for the summer, and they :an move back in right next door," (in 3aker or Burney). Graduate residents of the 8th floor in South Tower have also been isked to relocate because of a lack of unlergraduate spaces, according to Foster. THE MEN'S housing shortage resulted rom renovations on the Horseshoe and the ecent conversion of Bates House into a coed lormitory, according to Wertz. Seventy paces were lost because of the Rutledge enovations, 48 total men's spaces were lost <f % * * *. ' * r] * , * * * # * * ^ ' *" * * \ ? I <> > V , . , I - * * '* > t 1 > _ v ? , < U |pj ?again in Dessausure, in accordance with Title IX regulations. An additional 36 rooms will be lost in a planned renovation of Harper College, MaCaulay said. One hundred eighty men's spaces were lost this past year when Bates House became a coed dorm, Foster said. One hundred additional room spaces will be alloted to women athletes in Bates House this fall, according to Foster. Renovations to Laborde, when it became a women's dorm in 1976, included a carpeted lobby, dressers in every room and shower curtains in the hall bathrooms. These renovations were done "at minimal cost" Foster said The lobby will be maintained, but the room additions will be removed before males are allowed to move in this fall, according to Residential Life Services officials. I^aborde residents may sign up for rooms elsewhere on campus March 7, from 9 a.m. to noon, in the Tower's Lobby.