At Barnard, the housing rules and certain student conduct rules began to loosen and then disappear altogether. (illegal activity, such as under-age drinking and drugs, was the main exception.) Students assumed more and more responsibility for their own whereabouts.
The University (partly by choice and partly as a result of changes in the law) began to evaluate discrimination against women in the University community.
in 1971, Barnard hired its first (albeit male) gynecologist for Health Services. The original Greek Games, cancelled in Spring 1968, ended after over sixty years of competition, until revived recently in a different form. Co-ed housing was instituted in both Barnard’s and Columbia’s dorms.
And the relationship between the college and its students continues to evolve.
