At the same time as Estelle ran into the ban on mixed rooming among women. I was waiting for assignment to a room in a university dormitory. About 35 ur us, the others white, slept on cots in Villard Hall. Two weeks after registration, only myself and several footballers, who stayed for different reasons than I, remained. One day I asked a sponsor at the Veterans' dormitory when I would get a room.

"Just as soon as I can find a roommate for you." he said. A week later another negro student and I moved into a double room. During the second term my roommate left school. At a time when a number of students waited to enter the dormitory. I occupied a double room by myself till the end of the next term.

You may not see anything objectionable in the ban on mixed rooming. But I, as a negro, do. What ia it but a version of segregation? The doctrine of inferiority dies hard. We are permitted in the dormitories—a right we exercise with high regard—but not yet on equal terms.

A few days ago, a white student invited a negro to share his room. The two arc rooming together only with the permission of the dormitory supervisor, not with the approval of the director of dormitories. All of the negro students and some white are watching to see whether the ban will be officially re-imposed when word is carried to the Portland mothers who "put Estelle Allen in her place."

And why shouldn't (wo persons, each qualified to live in the dormitories, room together if both are agreeable? They pay the name money, eat the same food, and take the same course.