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Originally Posted by Low D Flat
The funny flip side is that with parietal rules, they treated you as though you were still young teens living at home. College students are treated much more like adults today when it comes to their personal lives.
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There was much discussion of en loco parentis at the state association of student governments. Mine was one of the most heavily "en loco" of all. Our curfew was 10:50PM except on Saturdays when we could sign out until 1AM. Or "Check out for the weekend" for home, of course. But it was very frequently not for home at all, as you might guess.
What was really ridiculous and which we resented mightily was having the same rules apply when we turned 21. Even if you were MARRIED you had to get permission from the Dean of Women to live with your husband! And it was often not forthcoming. I remember one woman in my Freshman dorm who was visibly pregnant who had not as yet received permission to live with her husband. She finally got it before she popped!
A couple of years later I talked with the Dean of Women about these antediluvian practices. Her story -and she stuck with it- was that there were those on the Board of Directors as well as big financial donors who insisted on them. Most of us couldn't wait to get out by graduation time!