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According to Parsons, that was the goal. Since Radcliffe days dating to the late 1960s, the Quad houses' cold singles off of hallways--intended to preserve the purity of its all-women residents--made living there experiments in social deprivation...
...some colleges, such as Caius, you have to wear an [academic] gown to dinner," Hurst says. And Chirgwin described one of the traditions involving Clare College--the all-women's college she attended at Cambridge--and King's College. "Once a month one of their drinking clubs comes to piss on our wall, and we all gather on top and throw eggs and flour down at them...
Previously, only members of the same sex served together. But the small number of female officers meant there were relatively few all-women teams. This led to scheduling problems as well as resentment among the men, who served many more shifts. The change, says Major Suzanne Randle of the Strategic Air Command in Omaha, "simply reflects an evolution of existing policy...
...think of myself as a Radcliffe student, and I don't take advantage of Radcliffe," says Carolyn H. Hax '88. She, like many other female undergraduates, says she feels that associating with the all-women Radcliffe community is somehow an admission of weakness or inferiority in the overall Harvard community...
...Radcliffe has to make itself more visible," Walsh agrees. She admits that it is harder for a women's community to assert itself at Harvard then at all-women's institutions, but feels that the community on campus could be stronger. "There's a responsibility among the students to have on some level an awareness and seek out a women's community," Walsh says...