Farber 6

The attitudes of college students were changing

• colleges shouldn't police our morals (when we are old enough to die in Vietnam)
• if discrimination is wrong in the south it is wrong in the north too

• religion had been used against interracial marriage but the passages used pretty clearly prohibit marriage with people of a different religion, not people of a different race, and Moses was married to an Ethiopian (Cush in Numbers 12:1 is identified as Ethiopia, though some interpreters have a theory there were two different lands of Cush)
• Bob Jones University banned interracial dating until 2000
• more on religious views
  

• note that according to Crowdpac.com, Clemson is the 364th most liberal university out of 446 based on political donations of people who work there
• some university administrators were hands off the issue, others were caught meeting the expectations of parents (protecting their daughters) as students expectations were changing
• students learned in anthropology and genetics courses that race was not a biological concept
• to what extent does social change start with young adults?
• on average young people change their views more easily than older people
• in some eras young people rebel against traditional ideas
• when does teaching new science cross over to indoctrinating liberal views?
• one idea of the role of the university is to teach students to think critically, to question assumptions and come to their own opinions (not just learning facts or training for a career)
  

• the idea was that colleges were in a parental role, responsible for providing students with a safe environment and guiding the development of their character
• this involved such rules as curfews but also restrictions on speech and rules about where you could go (even which restaurants).  Colleges were expected to make rules for students and discipline them the way parents would
• in 1961 the dean of women at Syracuse University believed it was her job to monitor the dating practices of female students, including informing parents if a woman dated someone of a different race more than once (p. 84)
  
• Dixon v. Alabama (1961): Alabama State College expelled a group of African-American students for participating in a civil rights demonstration
• Circuit Court ruled that students have a right to due process: a hearing before they are expelled
• Hammond v. South Carolina State College (1967) students who violated a rule against campus demonstrations without advance permission from college authorities won their case in court on the grounds of their right to free speech
• students at private universities had fewer rights because their enrollment was seen as an agreement to the rules of the university
• 1971 26th amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18: now college students were legally adults
• colleges changed to having a Dean of Students position instead of separate Deans of Women and Men
  
• debate continued about whether colleges were responsible for harm to students from their own bad choices or the behavior of other students
• by the 1980s it was clear that colleges had a responsibility to provide a safe environment on campus even though they did not have the right to police the morality of students
• today universities are seen as having a responsibility to facilitate student growth even though they don't have a legal responsibility to care for students
• students are adults responsible for their own choices

University of Pittsburgh did seek to interfere with interracial couples
In the case of the handicapped couple

• the dean of women tried to break them up
  
• faculty stood up for them
• they eventually married and had two children
• they had trouble renting an apartment, eventually bought a house in a Jewish neighborhood
  

housing discrimination was a big problem--first prohibited by the Fair Housing Act of 1968, but it was much ignored by landlords who had stereotypes about who would be good tenants or feared that other tenants would avoid apartments in integrated complexes

Civil Rights Act 1964

social barriers kept race mixing low