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“A Room of their Own” The dimensions of the rooms are about the only features of life in


Downing Residence Hall that haven’t changed since the 1963 photo was taken. Fashions in clothes and interior décor are conspicuously diff erent, and smart phones and laptops were the stuff of science fi ction. The transformation in social rules has been even more dramatic. Not only were men not permitted to enter women’s dorms in 1963 but, for another nine years, there were prescribed hours during which the residents were required to be inside those women’s dorms. Downing’s residents are now both male and female, although they do have to live in same-sex suites.


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