{"id":108,"date":"2011-02-03T18:37:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T18:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/?p=108"},"modified":"2011-12-12T16:45:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T16:45:27","slug":"orient-tale-of-another-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/prehistory-of-coeducation\/orient-tale-of-another-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tale of Another Gender&#8221; The Bowdoin Orient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 9, 1970, <em>The Bowdoin Orient<\/em>, Bowdoin\u2019s student run newspaper interviewed two perspective first year students about Bowdoin College becoming coeducational.\u00a0 Titled \u201cTale of Another Gender\u201d (Document GB, 16) the article discusses two women\u2019s attitudes about Bowdoin becoming coeducational.\u00a0 Women were excited about the idea that Bowdoin was now admitting women students and responded confidently to issues that would arise due to being the first women admitted to this previously all-male institution.\u00a0 The two women interviewed in the article, Leslie Hastings and Shelby Hayden, are fans of this new coeducation and fans of Bowdoin as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Other colleges like Bowdoin were also pondering the question of becoming coeducational.\u00a0 Williams College and Rutgers University both began admitting women in 1971, and Dartmouth followed shortly after in 1972.\u00a0 Universities and colleges, along with Bowdoin were slowly beginning to make the change to becoming coeducational.<\/p>\n<p>The picture above the article shows the image of changing times a Bowdoin, with women now applying for admission.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-490\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-490\" title=\"GB16 - &quot;Tale of Another Gender&quot; 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