Student Leadership

In February 1972, Dean Paul Nyhus addressed the Student Council regarding the absence of women representation. He described the “specific barriers” for a woman’s candidacy, such as the mandatory representation from each fraternity (reserving positions specifically for men) and the elections preceding women exchange students’ arrival on campus. To Dean Nyhus’s statement that “it would seem incongruous that a Council of men should speak for women students,” representative at-large Kevin Tierney responded that “any attempt to create special positions for women on the Council can only be regarded as patronizing and will not serve to increase fair and equal representation of all elements of the student population.”

Kevin J. Tierney to Dean Paul L. Nyhus, February 27, 1972