The way we were: In 1966, nursing students fight to keep girls’ dorms dry
Posted by: Molly Redden in News, Vox Populi, tags: 1960s, Alcohol, Alcohol Policy, Gender, Georgetown, Nursing School, Sexism
The GUNS girls would not approve…
Editor’s Note: In this week’s cover story, Molly Redden reported on Georgetown’s sordid, besotted past. In her research, she found some interesting insights into Georgetown’s gender relations in the mid-1960s.
This week’s cover story identifies 1966 as the start of two decades of outright debauchery at Georgetown, that being the year that the University first allowed alcohol in boys’ dorms. But not everyone was immediately ready to give in to lady liquor.
On November 3, The Hoya published “The GUNS Girl—Balancing Binge and Brain to Combat Conformity,” a recap of a symposium it had held where eight female GU Nursing School students indicated that they were anything but fine with extending the drinking-tolerant policy to girls’ dorms.
Some of the choicest quotes from the article include, “I’d hate to think of every girl sitting around, boozing it up,” and, “If you sit in and get binged every Friday well then you’re not right … in the head.”
“One girl,” the Hoya author wrote, “thought that drunk boys were at least funny, while the same cannot be said for drunk girls.”


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