Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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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?

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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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Brown slowly faces up to a housing crisis in space and quality, and a breakdown in community relations. By the fall, the university approves a coed housing project, discards in loco parentis, discusses renovation in cur- rent dorms and plans for new resi- dences. It creates a community rela- tions board, halts the off-campus flow, and returns to the concept of a residential college. The $4.3 million Bryant purchase promises to mitigate land and housing shortage without harming the local community. Coed College Diman-Pi Lamb, one of the country's most progressive coed projects, and the lvy League's first, meets students desires to live in a mature and normal manner. With the prospect of campus-wide coed living and new apartment-type hous- ing for students, Brown has a chance to demonstrate its leadership in creat- ing an environment appropriate for an institution of higher learning.