History Takeover: Lock the women up

History Takeover: Lock the women up

The sixties were an era of mass social change not only across the U.S. but at Grinnell. In the fall semester of 1967, women’s hours, a strict curfew for the women students who lived in the tightly monitored closed loggia of South Campus, were officially abolished following student opposition to the punitive measures. It was not until the subsequent fall semester when co-ed residence halls were established in a wave of co-education across the nat…