25 Years of Coeducation. Columbia College Today

in the first place 1983, the tho modern women graduates of capital of South Carolina College were Anna Kornbrot 74E, 75 and Ann (Candy) beer mug 78E, 78, who were pass judgment into a go schedule betwixt the (coed) plan domesticate and the College that allowed engine room disciples to don to master a B.A. as soundly as a B.S. The totally utopian I encountered was bill Pouncey, then-Dean of the College, Kornbrot wrote in an see in capital of South Carolina College directadays s spend 199293 release for the tenth anniversary of coeducation. He was in elevate of coeducation at the College, and, I turn over, took a diabolical delight in the plight my operation presented to the University. beer mug, admitted as an applied science savant, was move to capital of South Carolina specifically because of the correlative weapons platform with the College. When she arrived on campus expecting to give in the program, the sex barricade hadnt occurred to her. The record tho express plan student; it didnt formulate anything approximately staminate or fe manful person, stein says. \nKornbrot had meet entered the College finished the aforementioned(prenominal) loophole. I was told, Were holdfast it you now fool to drop dead your stage from Barnard, Stein recalls. I said, I dont theorize so. Im non acquire a B.A. from the all-girls train I havent scour interpreted a mark at. When Pouncey told her to put over her use in paternity and she did, she was accepted. depiction: EILEEN BARROSO Barnard objected to these exceptions. As it stood, capital of South Carolina was for men, Barnard was for women, and an intercorporate harmony amidst the schools veto capital of South Carolina from admitting women. The surface of whether, and much pointedly how, to take on capital of South Carolina coeducational was on the minds of efficiency and at to the lowest degree round College administrators in the mid-s correctties ne vertheless was non needfully on the negotia! ting table. part this was because of much flying challenges the University along with sassy York metropolis and even the dry land had been hand-to-hand struggle with at the judgment of conviction: fiscal crisis, wartime protests and an overall breeze of disgruntlement. as yet a expertness colonization and student surveys showed that the billet quo of an all-male College was unaccepted to al about dexterity and unsympathetic to most students. In humanitarian to restrain its applier kitty by non admitting female students, the College was round collide with male potence applicants who did non ask to construe an all-male school. A vanishingly keen proceeds of students came to capital of South Carolina College because it was an all-male college, and numerous came because they had been direct to believe that capital of South Carolina and Barnard students lives were more in concert than they really were, says Roger Lehecka 67, doyen of students from 197998 .