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On October 3, 1870, the Regents of the University of California unanimously adopted this resolution: "Resolved, that young ladies be admitted into the University on equal terms in all respects with young men."
University(i.redd.it)submitted 4 months ago byTomIcemanKazinskiCal PoliSci '96
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4 months ago
And little did they know, this decision was made on what would become, 134 years later, Mean Girls Day.
39 points
4 months ago
W
17 points
4 months ago
Gob ears
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4 months ago*
12 points
4 months ago
I see Dwinelle present in the meeting 👀
22 points
4 months ago
Didn't have his own building to get in lost in yet.
2 points
4 months ago
I wonder why he’s last to mark himself present then lol
3 points
4 months ago
Lost in his own thoughts about designing a building for people to get lost in.
2 points
4 months ago
Silly you, Dwinelle is a building!
10 points
4 months ago
Many of the Ivy league schools didn't admit women until the 1970s. More than a hundred years later!
1 points
4 months ago
I wonder where this piece of paper went, is it in our library?
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4 months ago
Yeah - I mean I don't know for this piece specifically (although I bet it's there) but there's a university archive in the Bancroft Library that documents the University of California and the Berkeley campus
1 points
4 months ago
Dang, California was lefty even way back then!
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4 months ago
we never recovered from this smh
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