Trine University - Modulus Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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I6'ci14g ll W0 an at Kill. My Girl 161' ad flick Gal 351141116 of Hallie 617 d Doll W0 an Tri-State University was founded as Tri-State Normal Col- lege in 1884. lt was designed as a coeducational institution for preparing men and women for teaching careers. Life at Tri-State was different then. There were no fra- ternities or sororities Cthey were prohibited by Tri-StateD. Academically, life was different too. For instance, there were no courses in teaching, the theory of education at Tri-State was that students who were taught normally would teach normally without a need for classes in education - hence Tri-State Nor- mal College. Now, Tri-State students enjoy the opportunity to pursue careers in liberal arts, business and engineering. The average time talsen for completion of a degree now, well exceeds the three-year average of Tri-State's first years. A single, strils- ing similarity remains, however: men at Tri-State outnumber women, Tri-State's first graduating class C188oD consisted of six students - five men and one woman. For a short time the situation was reversed. Faculty mem- ber Marshall Williams wrote in 1942, l'Some can remember when a man on the campus was about as much a novelty as the lady is today. In 1897, for instance, the graduating class of Music was made up of nine students - eight women and one man. The picture bagan to reform itself with the founding of the School of Engineering in 1902. By 1928, out of a graduating class of 282 students, 42 were women. Only one of these women graduated from the School of Engineering. The 1928 Modulus commented, Marie lsnows Civil Engineering and Domestic Science. We believe she will practice the latter. Needless to say, most women at Tri-State stayed with a teaching degree. As time passed, the male-female ratio at Tri-State increased. By 1942, only twenty students of a graduating class of 242 were women. By 1961, women were even more of a 'lsilent minority . By that year Tri-State offered an education in the fields of engineering and business, but few women were talsing advantage of these opportunities. The graduating class that year had a male-female ratio of 9711. ln fact, only one woman graduated that year from the School of Engineering, Tri-State life in 1980 is much different than that of the past. Tri-State's prohibition of dancing on campus has been lifted and we now have nine fraternities and one sorority on campus. The graduating class of 1979 had a man-woman ratio of only 411, and 152 of the women graduated as engineers. Women at Tri-State are no longer a silent minority , Where in the past all women affiliated with a fraternity were called little sisters, one fraternity accords its women members the equality of the title sister , with responsibilities to match, OASIS: Women's Forum was added to Tri-State's list of organizations during the spring auorter of 1980. The group, designed to con- centrate on solving some of the problems of women at Tri-State, provided all students with information that touches their lives at Tri-State, Women also have very audible voices in Student Senate, WEAX, the Modulus and the Triangle. In short, women at Tri-State have taken a giant step toward the future, They are no longer l'girls beside men , they are WOMEN, working for a more powerful status in the school and community, Women at Tri-State, give yourselves a hand, You deserve it C Z l

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