{"id":53,"date":"2025-04-10T18:44:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T18:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2025-06-20T14:10:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:10:54","slug":"tackling-social-and-political-issues","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/tackling-social-and-political-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackling Social and Political Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Coed Question<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a wave of \u201csingle-sex\u201d colleges became coeducational. The question of whether Mount Holyoke should become a coed college was a big issue in the early days of Choragos. <\/em>In an interview with The Mount Holyoke News <\/em>in 1993, former editor-in-chief Julie Van Camp reflected on her opinions, sharing that although she advocated for Mount Holyoke going coed, she came to feel the opposite after graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Campus polled on coeducation, Choragos, October 10, 1968.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Other issues of interest were the Vietnam War, as many students supported anti-war movements; changing rules around parietals, or when students were allowed to have male guests in their dorms, and alcohol at campus events, especially as Smith College made their regulations more lax; reform to the grading system and the implementation of self-scheduled exams; drug use by college students; and the creation of a Black studies academic department and Black cultural center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Left: Choragos, December 12, 1968.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Right: Choragos, April 18, 1971.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Coed Question In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a wave of \u201csingle-sex\u201d colleges became coeducational. The question of whether Mount Holyoke should become a coed college was a big issue in the early days of Choragos. In an interview with The Mount Holyoke News in 1993, former editor-in-chief Julie Van Camp reflected on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-nosidebar.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-53","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}