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    Do Clothes Make the Woman? : The Duke Dress Code
    (2007-05-04) Burchell, Jessica
    At Duke University, a dress code did exist at one point and by looking directly at the dress code it is possible to analyze the overall goals and control the university has exerted, the ways the dress code has changed, and the implications of those changes. It is interesting to look at the reasons why the rules existed and what they accomplished because information about perceptions and power struggles as well as age and gender relations can be discovered. It is most useful to look at different time periods in Duke’s history and, in doing so, use the specific details to make general observations and compare them. The first time period that will be looked at is the years of The Woman’s College, 1930-1963. The second time period, from 1963-1970, will be analyzed next. Breaking the time periods at 1963 is of particular importance because this is the last year that the Social Standards Committee produced their pamphlet documenting the dress code. This was a student-run branch of the Woman’s Student Government Association that was specifically interested in promoting “good taste and gracious living on campus.” One of their specific tasks was to produce a pamphlet for each incoming class which was initially called “It’s not in the Handbook” and later changed to “Design for a Duchess”. In these guides, there are pages devoted to the wardrobe of a “duchess” describing the appropriate dress for different kinds of activities. Later on, after the Social Standards board no longer exists, there is an obvious break from a traditional dress code. The students’ behavior starts to change which is apparent when analyzing the lack of documented dress policy, the changing pictorial documentation, and mostly the documentation, through the Woman’s College records, of rebellion from the students.
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    From the Archives to the Tower
    (2007-05-04) Conway, Amanda
    Katharine Banham was a pioneer. Just as Lewis and Clark ventured into the unknown West, she blindly went where few women had gone before – academia. With no map to follow, she blazed her own trail, documenting her route – complete with numerous detours – in the process. Analysis of this documentation would function as the manual for future brave women, to whom she provided tools to both encourage and assuage their intellectual journey through higher education. At a time when we are eliciting all resources possible to achieve the goal of “a world of full equality and respect for all” as stated by President Brodhead, it seems appropriate to resurrect Katharine Banham’s experience from the Archives to the forefront. For, we can learn a great deal about both her as a person and Duke as an institution from the obstacles she overcame, the programs she instituted, and the type of individual she was.
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    Gender at Duke
    (2007-05-04) Jones, Rosanne
    This research paper will analyze both the growth and decline of women’s roles here on campus. Consequently, I will investigate how national events parallel the waxing and waning of female leadership in The Woman’s College during the merge of this college with Trinity College to form Duke University in 1972.
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    History of Duke University’s Housing Policies as Seen Through Town and Gown Relations
    (2007-05-04) Uzoka, Udoka
    Town-gown relations define political and social taglines in today’s communities. The multifaceted dynamics of such a relationship involving two entities with (oftentimes) differing priorities and loyalties cannot be understood nor investigated in isolation and in the exclusivity of economics. One area that provides definition to the relationship between a town and an educational institution located within it involves the students at the school as well as policies governing the living affairs of the students. Of consideration in this paper is the history of campus housing policies as seen through the textured relationship between Duke University and the Durham, North Carolina community.
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    How Attitudes and Perceptions Can Influence Policy Changes
    (2007-05-04) Lamberth, Olivia
    Town-gown relations have a very large impact on the student experience at Duke University. The overall college experience is not based solely on academics, but also on the social and cultural outlets that a university can provide. The location of Duke in Durham, North Carolina is thus a major factor in growth and development of the students who chose to attend this University. This investigation demonstrates how the change in residential policy, specifically off-campus living, has led to changes in attitudes between the students and the community residents.
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    The Changing Face of Women’s Sports at Duke: From Throwing Like a Girl to Competing with the Men
    (2006-12) Rowbury, Shannon
    This paper sets out to examine what sports looked like for Duke women at different stages in the University’s history: How have administrative attitudes evolved, and what has been the ensuing effect on student involvement? Since the administration sets out the expectations, it establishes the norm for students. I have chosen to analyze four distinct periods in the history of women’s sports and athletics at Duke: the 1930s, the 1950s, the Title IX transition, and today’s Title IX aftermath.
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    The Perception and Depiction of Females: Sarcasm Replacing Humor from 1960-1975
    (2007-05-04) Saxena, Sweta
    As female activism demanded equality in the social, economic and political contexts in the twentieth century in America, their effects could be seen in higher education at Duke University in the 1960’s with the ending of the Woman’s College due to its merge into Trinity in 1972. These national and campus changes influenced the depiction and were influenced by the depiction of women in opinion-based articles and cartoons in “The Chronicle” from 1960 to 1975 and “The Peer” from 1960 to 1969. My analysis of two time periods, from 1960 to 1969 and 1969 to1975, shows that the depictions of women in humor related material were based on a perception that females chose to change because of influential national and university events. I hypothesized that from 1960 to 1969, when women were just beginning to realize that feminism could give them what they deserved such as the sexual revolution being able to provide them equality in sexual activity, female students were sexually objectified academically and socially in humorous material by mostly male authors because the sexual revolution did not take effect until about a decade later. Therefore the males’ perception was driving the depiction of females. However from 1969 to 1975, during the time of the national Women’s Liberation beginning in 1969, and Title IX and the university’s merger into Trinity in 1972, the opinionated authors changed to a voice of seriousness and commented sarcastically on the effects of feminism that were occurring on campus as well as in America. With the effect of the Women’s Liberation movement, Title IX and the merger, the increased number in females writing for “The Chronicle” tried to change the depiction of women in order to change the perception of females.
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    Walking a Fine Line
    (2006-12) Decker, Bobbie
    In this essay, I examine the social disparity between the genders at Duke University, focusing on two critical time periods – the first decades of the founding of The Woman’s College and Trinity College from the mid 1920’s to late 1930’s and the politically transitional period of the early 1960’s to early 1970’s. I believe these phases juxtapose a rigidly defined society and critical period of challenging the norm for women. I also believe that these two periods best represent the university’s response to changing social standards. In respect to the social atmosphere at the University, I specifically focus on the dating culture and dating policies. I will not analyze an intermediate period, as I feel that there is insignificant change between these eras. Additionally, I will not focus on a later period because I think that after the dissolution of The Woman’s College and the integration of women into Duke University, differing policies concerning gender are not as explicitly stated.
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    "Why Did I Get In?"
    (2007-05-04) Walters, Margaret
    Admissions policies have adapted a fluid construct, allowing for changes that suit the upcoming academic year. This paper will describe the changing admissions policies that characterized the 1930s and the 1970s, looking specifically at the changes associated with The Woman’s College and later, the changes made during the merge of The Woman’s College and Trinity College. The overlying question from which each aspect of the paper is constructed is “Why did I get in?”
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    Women In Engineering at Duke University
    (2006-12-12) Richards, Lisa
    In order to examine the disparity between the number of women in engineering at Duke in comparison to the long-term presence and dominance of men, I will examine three separate time periods and show the change that occurs as we advance towards the present.