Sorority Life on Campus 1960-2000
by Anna Brown “Overall our sorority house felt like a home, with really nice and kind girls. I lived in a home with a lot of friends, I was not best friends with all of them, but I always felt welcome there.”(1) Sorority living was and is designed for women to come together and encourage each other in their academic and life pursuits. This was especially true on campuses where… Read More
Women on Campus: Memories of Purdue’s Campus & Classrooms in the Seventies
by Anna Brown “Being sensitive of institutional inequality was not on my radar screen, everyone was treated fairly. It became clearer and clearer that was not the case.” (1) Betty Nelson joined Purdue University staff in the mid-1960s with this mindset as many female students did. As the decade closed and the seventies began, the wall of inequality began to break down for many women on Purdue University’s campus as… Read More
Home Economics and the Practice House
by Anna Brown “If you are a young woman and want to get married, a college or university campus is the best possible hunting preserve. Such a campus is well stocked with young bachelors who are already on their way up because they have taken the pains at least to begin a college education.” (1) This quote, printed in the Purdue Exponent in 1963, depicts the assumptions and beliefs of… Read More