Browsing by Subject "Woman’s College"

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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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    Expulsion: Reasons, Rates, and Ramifications
    (2007-05-04) Garrison, Jill
    Women have always been held to different social standards than men. Although these variations in standards are not as prevalent today as they once were, they still are a part of our everyday lives. For instance, while it is a widely known that sorority life is filled with drinking and partying, during rush, current members of sororities may not talk about the partying and drinking that their sorority does. During rush, sorority members have to “pretend” that they do not drink, while during fraternity rush, drinking is a part of the process. Ever since the admission of women into Trinity College in 1896, women at Duke have always been held to different standards than men. In this paper, I will examine the changing rules and regulations over two different time periods (the 1930-1940’s and the 1960-1970’s) and the amount of opposition these rules and regulations incurred. In doing this, I will explore the suspension, expulsion and the judicial procedures that followed. I also will provide a thorough examination of the differences between the rules of the men in Trinity and the female students of The Woman’s College.
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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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    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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    The Social Emphasis
    (2007-05-04) Mistretta, Alexandra
    Rules and regulations have always been two things that have changed over a period of time based on what was occurring in society and its surroundings. New regulations were created as a result of new technology and the addition of social entertainment. The acquisition of new rules as well as the deletion of old ones and why this occurs can be analyzed through Duke University’s dormitory life. During the time of the Woman’s College, rules and regulations were set by bodies of government within the college in order to mold women into the kind of students the college wanted them to be. However, it can be argued that these rules were used in order to emphasize social success within the college and paid very little attention to outlining how a woman was to achieve educational success.
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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?”