The Men's Student Senate passed 26 new class rules to affect the freshmen of the coming school year, including the reinstatement of the girl rule. This marked a reversal of the previous year's tendency toward abolishing class rules.
The Men's Student Senate voted to create two extra senator positions, one each for Sigma Tau Phi and Phi Epsilon Pi, two Jewish fraternities that were prominent in campus life but not officially recognized by the College administration.
The Men's Student Senate amended its constitution so that the Senate would have the authority to nominate candidates to run for the positions allocated to men unaffiliated with fraternities. Liverant, an unaffiliated senator, led the motion. Accusations abounded that the motion was merely intended to maintain a faction in the Senate in the next school year. The amendment's proponents argued that it was intended to prevent unaffiliated students from nominating clique candidates.
The Men's Tribunal, citing lack of accusations of rulebreaking and mindful of changes in the rules for the upcoming year, suspended the freshman class rules for the remainder of the 1930-1931 school year, a month earlier than any other Tribunal in Dickinson history.
The Men's Student Senate repealed 12 of the freshman class rules for the coming school year following unusual levels of rebellion and complaint against the rules by the class of 1934. Most importantly, the "girl rule" limiting freshman men's contact with freshman women, the path rule forbidding freshmen from using certain paths on campus, and the rules requiring that freshmen always carry matches for the upperclassmen and freshman handbooks were abolished.
Judith Rogers (Class of 1965) and her roommate Maureen Newton (Class of 1965) moved into Metzger Hall in the Fall of 1961.