Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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A girl steps into the hall in curlers and a bathrobe and says hi to her roommate's boyfriend without blushing. In what used to be a fraternity lounge, Coed College residents tell yet another bunch of the skeptical that they're getting to know each other as people instead of as Saturday night dates. Girls get mailboxes in the post office lobby, seats at Cam Club, and top billing in extracurricular activities.

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Those who have been on campus the last few years can sense it. There is a New Brown. It is not unique for institutions to develop and change. Past generations of Brunonians have also proclaimed new Browns. The difference lies in that almost every aspect of campus life has been radically altered in the past few years, not just the curriculum or the residential system or the social rules. Most of these changes, building up both outside and within the university, con- verged in the late sixties. Unlike other schools who sought to prevent or stall progress, our community met the chal- lenge of the future and within the past year transformed Brown into a potential leader in American higher education to- day. But leadership comes in inspiring others to follow your example, and although major changes have been approved, many have not been implemented. They stand on paper, indelible marks of a seemingly progressive academic community. The challenge comes in bringing them to life; but this is the task of the seventies.

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Girls stop explaining that theyre students at Pembroke, the women's affiliate which has all its classes with men students, and say simply, l go to Brown. And, inevitably, the university sits down in a presidential committee to take a look at the 78-year-old coordi- nate structure while Yale and Prince- ton go clamorously coed. Brown begins to pay less attention to the sex and more to the talent of its constitu- ents.