Protests

Students participate in national "Rally for Women's Lives"
Students participate in national "Rally for Women's Lives"

This Dickinsonian article discusses how a delegation of students from the College "joined over 100,000 women as they rallied in Washington, D.C., protesting violence against women." It mentions the inclusion of the Clothesline Project, both at the rally itself and at Dickinson.

Date: April 13, 1995
All terms: 1990-1999, Activism, Goldman, Lisa, Krall, Katie, Malsheimer, Lonna, Pokoik, Alicia, Protests, Rose, Susan, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Shaw, Elizabeth, Women's rights movement
Students Protest the War in Vietnam, 1969
Photo

This photo depicts a group of students protesting the Vietnam War. The students marched from Dickinson College past the Army War College in 1969.

Date: 1969
All terms: 1960-1969, Activism, Army War College, Photograph, Protests, Vietnam War
Female Students Participate in the March Past the War College, 1969
Photo

This photo depicts two female students participating in the anti-war march. The march was organized by Dickinson students to protest Amercia's involvement in the Vietnam War.

Date: October 15, 1969
All terms: 1960-1969, Activism, Army War College, Photograph, Protests, Vietnam War
Vietnam Protest on Parents Day
Photo

This photo depicts Deborah Siegel, class of 1972, reading the names of soldiers killed in the Vietnam War. This demonstration protested America's involvement in the war.

Date: 1969
All terms: 1960-1969, Activism, Holland Union Building, Photograph, Protests, Siegel, Deborah, Vietnam War
"I was a Co-ed": Female Students Rebel at Graduation
Excerpt

In her memoir recounting her time at Dickinson, Elizabeth Low remembers an instance in which female students rebeled at graduation and wore white. Prior to the rebelion, and much to the chagrin of many female students, all students were required to wear black gowns at graduation. Low, like other early women at Dickinson, detested the requirement. However, she was forced to wear the color to her own graduation.

Date: 1951
All terms: 1950-1959, Graduation, I Was a Coed, Low, Elizabeth A., Protests
Grievances against the Dean of Women
Eavesdropping and Other Grievances

"Suggestions Considered Requisite by the Students of Dickinson College for the Improvement of the College," distributed to faculty and trustees on December 15, 1945, documents the reasons for the appointment of a new dean of women.

Date: December 15, 1945
All terms: 1940-1949, Administration, Board of Trustees, Faculty, Gascoigne, Sally L., House mothers, Meredith, Josephine B., Metzger Hall, Protests, World War II
Defamation
Defamation

Distributed to faculty and trustees on December 15, 1945, "Suggestions Considered Requisite by the Students of Dickinson College for the Improvement of the College" calls for the appointment of a new dean of women. The document cites the numerous occasions on which the dean "defamed the character of the women students" by ridiculing them and calling into question their moral judgement.

Date: December 15, 1945
All terms: 1940-1949, Administration, Board of Trustees, Dining hall, Hamilton, John N., Keiner, Margery E., Meredith, Josephine B., Metzger Hall, Protests, Saseen, Roberta S., Schnelli, Nancy J., World War II, Yeager, Irene, Yeager, Peggy M.
In Bad Faith
Threats and Inducement

"Suggestions Considered Requisite by the Students of Dickinson College for the Improvement of the College," a document distributed to faculty and trustees on December 15, 1945, claims that the Dean of Women dealt with female students "in bad faith" by breaking promises. The document cites two cases in which the Dean of Women broke promises: in one case, the dean tried to discover who had disobeyed a ruling by promising to revoke disciplinary action for those who confessed.

Date: December 15, 1945
All terms: 1940-1949, Administration, Board of Trustees, Boylhart, Ann C., Johns, Nancy E., Lattomus, Judy, Macy, Barbara, Mensch, Winona M., Meredith, Josephine B., Morrow, Ellen B., Pape, Marie M., Protests, Turash, Estelle S., World War II
Incompetent as a Personal Advisor
Incompetent Personal Advisor

In "Suggestions Considered Requisite by the Students of Dickinson College for the Improvement of the College" distributed to faculty and trustees on December 15, 1945, students explain the need for the appointment of a new Dean of Women, calling the Dean of Women Josephine B. Meredith "incompetent as a personal advisor." According to the document, she does not give women students sympathy in personal matters and places them on probation without adequate grounds.

Date: December 15, 1945
All terms: 1940-1949, Administration, Meredith, Josephine B., Protests, World War II
Suggestions by Students for the Improvement of the College
Grievances

A document entitled "Suggestions Considered Requisite by the Students of Dickinson College for the Improvement of the College" was distributed to faculty and trustees on December 15, 1945. The first "suggestion" was the appointment of a "recognized educator" as president to replace the committee of three ruling the college at the time. According to the document, the "lack of individual authority prevents decisions." The second and longest suggestion asks for the appointment of a new dean of women. The document calls Dean Josephine B.

Date: December 15, 1945
All terms: 1940-1949, Administration, Boylhart, Ann C., Faculty, Hamilton, John N., House mothers, Johns, Nancy E., Keiner, Margery E., Lattomus, Judy, Macy, Barbara, Mensch, Winona M., Meredith, Josephine B., Metzger Hall, Morrow, Ellen B., Pape, Marie M., Protests, Schadle, Lenore, Schnelli, Nancy J., Student governance, Turash, Estelle S., World War II, Yeager, Irene, Yeager, Peggy M.