Caroline Boardman and Miranda Spivack’s “‘Men’s College with Women’” in the Bowdoin Orient, September 17, 1971
Transfer student Caroline Boardman (Bowdoin 1972) and exchange student Miranda Spivack (Sarah Lawrence 1973) published this piece just weeks after the first women officially matriculated at the College. Quoting a women’s dorm proctor, the article begins: “Bowdoin is still far from being a co-ed institution. It is a men’s college with women.” By 1971, Bowdoin had graduated 169 classes of all men students and employed a faculty and staff of predominantly men. The legacy of men presiding over campus presented various difficulties for women entering the space. Boardman and Spivack emphasized these challenges, such as lack of women role models and appropriate accommodations, as they adjusted to Bowdoin life.
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