Boys & Girls Together

Drawing a deep breath, the fast-growing University of California at Los Angeles announced last week that nearly all its resident men and women will now live together. As if drawing up plans for San Quentin prison, it promised parents that it would aim for "maximum security."

U.C.L.A.'s new Sproul Hall, scheduled to open this fall, was planned from the start as cohabitational. In separate wings for opposite sexes, Sproul's 400 men and 400 girls will share a beige brick nest atop a Westwood hill.

A crush of female room applications has now forced the university to make over Dykstra Hall as well. Originally all male, it will now house girls on the top four of its ten floors. Last week Dean of Residence Byron Atkinson was busily arranging "suitable security measures." Among them: thick walls between male and female elevators. Since the fire-escape doors open down, Atkinson presumes that they are "safe" (if only the men are aggressors). "We are not planning to set up flamethrowers or machine guns at strategic passes," said he. "All we can do is try not to make it easy to break the rules."

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