We were NOT Always Like This!!
My Home-Town had one 4-Yr College before 1900. It was for Blacks only, because whites wouldnot DARE attend.. The Crackers who formed the KKK, burned it down in 1925. It was not replaced. My Mother was unable to attend that college, as expected. Her older siblings did. My Mother graduated from a College in Kansas, in 1929.
I entered University in my Home State in 1957. It was Established in the late 1860s,, by Buffalo Soldiers, and named for the recently assassinated President, who Emancipated them from Slavery.
The foundation of my 4-yr college career was obtained there. My "tickets" to success in San Francisco were provided by some of its Faculty Members; when I was forced to transfer after its Physics Department faced a hiring crisis.
I wrote a Paper in Graduate School that explained what happened. Title: "Doctor White, and Mr. Black". Members of the Math and Sciences Faculty were world-renown! The University was "reverse-integrated", in 1957, by poor whites who could not afford to attend the State University, 30 miles away. There was one white foreign student, from Sweden. He "integrated" with black students. The local whites refused!
Both the Men's Dormitories and the Women's Dormitories had DORM-MOTHERS who made sure the outside doors were locked at 9p.m.; all visitors had exited the premises; and the dormitory was maintained-quiet for study. Anyone caught with beer on campus faced Suspension.
That was ten years before the leading edge of the Baby Boom population entered college. By the early 1970s, the Baby-Boom Children had wreaked havoc across K-12 education. The post-war housing was designed to be segregated by race, and by generation. White kids grew up in a sea of other white kids, and no old folk, as family members. There were, ultimately, 76 Million Baby Boomers, all-told. Most facilities, and institutional practices crumbled before the onslaught; from K-12, and was beginning to move onto college campuses by the late 60s or early 70s. All HELL Broke Loose! No adult could be found on a Campus who would take responsibility for ANYTHING! Many Faculties and Staffs at major Universities are still that way today. Students have to fend for themselves.
Woodstock, Vietnam War Protests, and Racial Integration Strife were operating during the period, and had their impact.
What was always existent as Frat-based behavior, protected by Alumni, morphed into the pig-sty we see on too many campuses today.
Rape, alcoholism, and associated ills, will not come under control, until parents, already stressed financially, raise HELL and refuse to send their young girls into such a mess!
Stay Vigilant! Dysfunction is in the GENES of the Baby-Boomers??
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