Lancaster students' lodging victory

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from a Lancashire reader The Sunday Telegraph of October 10th reported: "Lancaster University students have won the first round of their fight against increased lodging charges of 10s. a week agreed by the university authorities and the landladies. After a meeting batween representatives of the Student Council and the Senate on Friday it was agreed that the whole question of lodging charges should be reviewed. Students are to be represented on the lodgings committee. There are to be talks on differential rents. The students are to withdraw a ban on paying lodging charges which they claim has been nearly 100% effective. The terms of the agreement are expected to be approved at a general meeting of students tomorrow. "Students beginning their second year last week were asked to pay £4 a week instead of £3. 10s. The University newspapers Carolynne and John O'Gauntlet, produced a broadsheet condemning the charges. The broadsheet alsu demanded student representation on the lodging committee and urged first-year students to withhold payment of the new charge. A major complaint of the students was that two men sharing a small room with no facilities for study elsewhere in the house were paying the same amount as those who had individual rooms, or who shared a bedroom with a sitting~room."