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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trilling had hoped to find warm friendships when she came to the Quad in '71. Instead she found men and women more isolated than ever before. They may have been brushing their teeth side by side, but they were good and lonely all the same...
This mixture puzzled Trilling, because she sensed something special in the first Radcliffe men. They seemed a sensitive group; men who preferred milk and cookies to the happy hour scene. They respected Radcliffe brains but "were by and large men who felt inadequate with competition, who felt women would be more tender...
...reason Radcliffe women stayed at the Quad is that their parietal hours were more relaxed than Harvard's. In 1969 Radcliffe allowed women to have men in their rooms--until 10 p.m. on weeknights, while Harvard wanted women in the houses only from 4 to 7 p.m. On weekends the colleges extended the curfews. "Naturally, a lot more activity went on at the Quad," Molony says...
...social structure throughout the '60s remained rigid, with few informal activities allowing men and women to interact, Nancy L. Rosenblum '69 says. Men asked women out on dates, and it was a stigma not to go out on a Saturday night. Radcliffe dorms served milk and cookies on Saturdays for the unlucky--thus advertising the shame, Rosenblum notes. A woman's social life was a matter of public record in the dorms, since all calls went through the bell's desk and interested residents constantly leafed through the sign-out ledger...
...following spring "The Experiment" in coed residences began, with 50 women from each of the Radcliffe Houses (North, South and East) exchanging rooms with 50 Harvard men. In the fall of 1970, when co-residential living began at the Quad and in five River Houses, Molony recalls walking into the Lowell House dining hall and feeling as if she were on display as a novelty...