Co-education: Even the Boy Scouts have girls!

graduate level. On January 1, 1969, even the boy scouts adm itted w om en to the ir E xp lo rer program . And still, N otre D am e clings desperately to w hat Dr. Eugene Loveless o f o u r psychology dep a rtm en t calls, “ th e last vestage o f m onasticism in o u r society to d a y .” Six to one th e fam ous and o ften q u o ted ra tio o f N otre D am e m en to St. M ary’s girls. B ut the problem goes m uch beyond th e bounds o f th e sim ple a rith ­ m etical. In 1967, th e Scholastic repo rted only 622 o f th e 1301 residen t w om en at S t. M ary’s w ere signed o u t fo r an unusually active S atu rday night. 92% o f This is the in itia l in sta llm en t o f a fiv e part series on C o-Education a t N o tre D am e by J im Pellegrin and Barry Breen.