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Originally posted by BSUPhiSig'92
Most schools got rid of in loco parentis in the late sixties-early seventies. It came directly out of the whole sixties student movement and student demands for greater freedom from the university administration. For example, my mother graduated from college in 1957. She lived in a women's dorm with a 10PM curfew on the weekend and bedchecks. Curfew was midnight on the weekend. If you were not in your room at bedcheck, you got in trouble. Women ate in a separate dining hall at assigned tables and could not leave the table until everyone at the table finished eating. If you went out on a date on the weekend, you had to sign out and tell where you were going. In those days colleges had at least as many rules as there were living in your parent's home, and my mother even went to a state school!
Imagine her reaction when in 1987, she found out we could have female visitors in our rooms until 2AM on weekends! In her day, men weren't allowed out of the lobby! Now I'm surprised when I started working at a university where all the dorm floors are co-ed, and there's no visitation hours.(the bathrooms are single sex though)
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I'm assuming
(no Odd Couple quotes, please) that this went hand-in-hand with the lowering of the drinking age. These two trends probably complimented each other nicely.