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...with the Freshman Union. Rebelling against a jacket-and-tie dress code, some men wore only sandals and boxers with the mandatory jackets and ties. A few months later, the college threw out the policy. The Union even opened up to women briefly in 1969, until huge numbers of Quad girls overcrowded the dining hall...
Radcliffe alumnae worried about preserving their alma mater’s female focus, but most controversial was the possibility of co-residency. Alumni from both schools worried about dating, orgies, and, most of all, about the possibility of having co-ed bathrooms in the Quad. “Everybody seemed to be much more worried about the bathrooms than the bedrooms,” Lewis says. “They definitely had their attention in the wrong place...
Women who signed up wanted to be close to classes and the social center of the River. Men volunteered to trade their convenient locations for more minor benefits. Some men wanted to move to the Quad simply for the food, which was rumored to be tastier and to include more fruits and vegetables, or for the chance to meet more Radcliffe women. “I raised my hand immediately,” writes Jim Kessler ‘72 in an e-mail. He moved from Lowell to the Quad in the spring experiment...
That was easier in New Quincy, where bathrooms were inside suites, but in the Quad, men and women used communal bathrooms and walked the halls in bathrobes and slippers. Some of the Quad girls, excited by the proximity of so many eligible bachelors, chased after their male neighbors. In order to escape from the buzz of girls in their rooms, some men sought refuge in the rooms of more quiet and studious Cliffies.first at some uncivilized hour and rate them based on how obnoxious they were: whether their underwear showed, would they ever be able to enter the civilized world...
...residency changed interactions between men and women beyond the pool. In the Quad, it became normal to see men’s legs in the shower and shaving cream on the ledge. The Quad women who had harassed men in their suites learned how to become just friends, making popcorn and cookies in the kitchen. Sex took a side seat to friendship...