[Magdalen] ATTN The Scotts !!!

[Brian Reid]

When I graduated from the University of Maryland in 1970, these exact 
rules were still in effect there. There was also a rule that if you were 
caught drinking alcohol, anywhere in the world, at any time, whether or 
not school was in session, you would be immediately expelled.


On 2019-01-31 10:18, Scott Knitter wrote:
> Young Michigan State students are typically aghast when told that up 
> until
> the early 1970s, women had to wear a skirt or dress, and men a dress 
> shirt
> (and possibly tie) to dinner in the dorms; and women were not allowed 
> to
> march in the Spartan Marching Band. When I marched in 1978, some of my
> colleagues in the saxophone section were some of the first women 
> admitted.
> They typically were the best marchers and saxophonists in the band.
> 
> Things were quite different, not so very long ago (well, it was long 
> ago,
> but not SO VERY long ago, right?).