Word: men
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protests at Columbia University this spring, the gentlest was the three-day "sleep-in" at two men's dormitories staged by more than 100 girls from Barnard College. The girls asked that the two adjacent schools extend the concept of coeducation to include sexually integrated dormitories. Like the gentlemen they sometimes are, Columbia males had gallantly vacated a number of rooms to make the sleep-in not only possible but, so to speak, proper as well. Since an overwhelming majority of students at Barnard and Columbia are on record as in favor of the idea, the schools...
Shocking? Not really. Coed dorms are still something of a novelty in the East, but on scores of campuses elsewhere in the U.S., young men and women have been sharing dormitories for several years. "It is a fair assumption that coed living really is the trend of the future," says John Houseley, director of Pomona College's Oldenborg Hall, a mixed residence that was started three years ago. At U.C.L.A. the future has already arrived: there is only one single-sex dormitory left-and even it will soon be converted into a coed dorm for graduate students...
...mixing allowed. The sexes are usually segregated in separate wings or on separate floors with common lounges in between. Most schools allow at least a measure of visiting in rooms, but the parietal rules vary widely. In the only coed dorm at the University of Texas, for example, men are allowed to entertain women in their rooms only on weekends. An alarm system is set on the staircases leading to the women's floors; it has been silent all year. Among the most liberal is Stanford, where men and women in one coed dorm live in adjacent rooms...
...lives in coed Woodward Court. "The mere fact that you can talk to a guy any time you want to means you're going to be better adjusted socially." Adds Stanford Senior Pat McMahon: "I think it encourages a more holistic relationship. It is very important that men and women see each other as more than bodies...
Final Freedom. Behavior benefits all around. "People generally are on their mettle a little more," says Dick Palmer, manager of Berkeley's co-op housing, which includes two coed dorms. "The men are a little more gentlemanly and the women a little more womanly." Asks Stanford Junior Craig Wilson: "When was the last time you heard of a panty raid in a coed dorm...