A 'gender revolution,' inspired at Yale
When Jane Hunter ’71 GRD ’81 arrived in her Calhoun College dorm in the fall of 1969 — the first year women matriculated to Yale College — she found a note from the room’s previous occupants, who had graduated the previous spring.
Hunter reproduced part of the note that October in a News op-ed titled “Coed Identity: Singing New Boola Blues.” The male writers said they were “primarily concerned that the fraternal bonds so long integral to Yale, not be eroded by coeducation” and that they hoped women would not “end the special love for Yale, the pride in one’s class, the hatred of...
