Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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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.

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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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Rents rise from $30 to $200. Fam- ilies suffer relocation to South Providence. The number of flats sub- let to students doubles in three years. Urban removal with tacit Brown ap- proval. Three times housing committees affirm that Brown is no longer a residential college. Fourteen percent of Brown's undergrads move off- campus. Local citizens thwart the U's attempt to build a parking garage in their midst. Enrollment rises by 1600 in a decade; projections call for 7000 stu- dents by the late seventies. Yet hous- ing spaces increase by only 600 since '61 with conditions as absurd as ever. During Commencement, one alumnus staying in the West Quad asked, Do students actually live in here all year long?