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...Stad says that in comparison to the 1960s when hundreds of students participated in even the smallest elections, students today have no one concrete issue to fight for, making for little enthusiasm in the political arena...
...response to increased binge drinking, the homogenization of residential communities and a renewed interest in intellectual life outside the classroom, many liberal arts schools are moving back towards this in loco parentis view of college administration prevalent before the 1960s...
...lasting consequences of the unrest of the late 1960s was the removal of adult authority from the lives of undergraduates at many colleges. And, as a consequence, residential communities developed much as students themselves wanted them...
...Class of 1975 faced a different kind of challenge from its predecessors. While many of the hard-fought battles students had waged in the late 1960s--from civil rights to Vietnam--were over, a new one was emerging over Radcliffe College. During the early 1970s the role of Radcliffe and its students changed rapidly at Harvard...
...were very surprised that males owned tuxes. That was completely different from our times. In the 1960s they cancelled high school dances and proms," Naddaff says. "College was an extension of that...