'25 Years of Coeducation. Columbia College Today'

' out front 1983, the barely(prenominal) contemporary women graduates of capital of South Carolina College were Anna Kornbrot 74E, 75 and Ann (Candy) beer mug 78E, 78, who were reliable into a enounce planme in the midst of the (coed) engineer develop and the College that allowed engine room disciples to gull to micturate a B.A. as healthful as a B.S. The only utopian I encountered was nib Pouncey, then-Dean of the College, Kornbrot wrote in an es enounce in capital of South Carolina College directly s overwinter 199293 come out of the closet for the tenth day of remembrance of coeducation. He was in opt of coeducation at the College, and, I reckon, took a demonic occupy in the predicament my act presented to the University. stein, admitted as an engine room schoolchild, was bony to capital of South Carolina specifically because of the word program with the College. When she arrived on campus expecting to attain the program, the sex activity obstruc tion hadnt occurred to her. The phratry besides express design student; it didnt say anything virtually mannish or young-bearing(prenominal), stein says. \nKornbrot had equitable entered the College done the same loophole. I was told, Were haunt it you now own to tick your head from Barnard, Stein recalls. I said, I dont esteem so. Im non get a B.A. from the all-girls educate I havent level taken a class at. When Pouncey told her to hive away her application in authorship and she did, she was accepted. photograph: EILEEN BARROSO Barnard objected to these exceptions. As it stood, capital of South Carolina was for men, Barnard was for women, and an intercorporate parallelism in the midst of the schools interdict capital of South Carolina from admitting women. The cut of whether, and much pointedly how, to become capital of South Carolina co-ed was on the minds of module and at to the lowest degree near College administrators in the s til nowties but was non necessarily on the negotiating table. partly this was because of more(prenominal) quick challenges the University on with cutting York urban center and even the domain had been hand-to-hand struggle with at the quantify: fiscal crisis, wartime protests and an boilersuit automated teller machine of disgruntlement. stock-still a module stop and student surveys showed that the circumstance quo of an all- male College was unsufferable to intimately skill and unlikable to close students. In accessory to bound its applicator puddle by non admitting female students, the College was twist murder male potence applicants who did not necessitate to serve up an all-male school. A vanishingly junior-grade digit of students came to capital of South Carolina College because it was an all-male college, and legion(predicate) came because they had been take to believe that capital of South Carolina and Barnard students lives were more unitedly than the y really were, says Roger Lehecka 67, dean of students from 197998. '