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At that time, the University of Missouri had rules governing student behavior, especially women’s. Dorms had hours at which the women had to be in their rooms with the doors to the dorm locked. Men were not allowed above the first floor, and a man found in a woman’s room would be banished from the university.Women in my classes had to wear skirts to class unless the temperature dropped below freezing.

A counterculture began to develop. Drug use went up; women went for the braless look and began to push for changes in the rules. At one point, the President’s Office at our university was taken over by students protesting the Viet Nam war, and the National Guard was called in to remove them.

At this time, I helped start Everyday People, a center outside the university regulations, to help students with problems concerning drug use, birth control and other sensitive topics because a considerable number of students no longer trusted the administration. I discuss Everyday People more fully in another chapter.

Nationally and on our campus in ’68 and ’69, we began to feel the power of the woman’s movement, gay organizations and Black Power. It was a society in ferment and the world changed.