TSC Fall 2011 Week 4

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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Grand Reunion Weekend

Women’s Soccer

Alumni reconnect with fellow Broncos

Victory against St. Mary’s extends team’s winning streak

SCENE, PAGE 7

SPORTS, PAGE 12

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BRIAN KLAHN — THE SANTA CLARA

Sophomore Alison Smith, Junior Alyssa Strickland, Sophomore Justina Salinas and Sophomore Amanda Sharpe (from left to right) hold an archive of a 1961 issue of The Santa Clara, which reads “TRADITION SHATTERED” in reference to women attending to the university. At that time, women could not sunbathe, wear shorts or make late-night telephone calls. Today, women make up over half of the student population.

Five decades later, women make big difference Anayo Awuzie

The Santa Clara When female students were first admitted to Santa Clara 50 years ago, the university did not allow them to use the telephone late at night, they were forbidden from sunbathing in the gardens and they couldn’t wear shorts. Today, the president and vice-president of Associated Student Government are both women, there are more female than male students, and last year’s valedictorian was a woman. Since the day the Father Patrick Donohoe gave the green light for co-education, Santa Clara became the first Catholic institute of higher education in California to admit

women after 110 years of being exclusively male and multitudes of women have been able to receive a Jesuit education just as the men before them. “It was really a watershed moment for the university because our history has been extensive,” says Kathy Kale, Executive Director of the Alumni Association, ”There was a lot of controversy about that decision, and yet women came to campus and really changed Santa Clara irrevocably. I think Santa Clara has been better for it; it opened the door for female faculty members and certainly female staff members.” According to one of the first female graduates Gaby Miller (‘65), “I learned, but they hadn’t a clue what to do with us, they really didn’t.” Santa Clara Historian George Giacomini said that women remained out of higher education for a long time. “There had been a movement toward co-education

Sororities An inside perspective on the rush process OPINION, PAGE 5

throughout the country, but it was a slow movement in the west and among Catholic colleges. Santa Clara was certainly in the forefront.” The university changed the all-male residencies at Park Lanai, where the Park Ave apartments are currently located, to Villa Maria, a residence hall that was specifically for the incoming women. After 1961, the university quickly built Graham Hall, which became the on-campus residency for women for future years. Women-only dorms at a Jesuit school in its first year of accepting women in the early 60’s came with a set of stiff rules. Giacomini said that even though most men who attended the university weren’t bothered by women attending the school the administration, given the time See Celebrating, Page 3

Quakes Delay Move Santa Clara to keep Major League Soccer team around Jackie Pearce and Kurt Wagner The Santa Clara While the San Jose Earthquakes soccer team may bedissapointed that they haven’t been able to start building their new stadium, Santa Clara can look forward to hosting the Major League Soccer team at Buck Shaw Stadium for a few more years. The Earthquakes have been utilizing the facilities at Buck Shaw Stadium and Santa Clara’s Leavey Center for the past four years, a relationship that Santa Clara Athletic Director Dan Coonan said has been

“a very good thing for the university.” “I think (the contract) has been favorable to both them and to us,” said Coonan, who added that the Earthquakes and Santa Clara remain under contract for the next couple of years. Santa Clara has benefitted in multiple ways through having the Earthquakes play on campus. Most notably, the university receives an undisclosed amount of money from the Quakes as well as facilities contributions, said Coonan. Students have also been able to take advantage of the relationship, since they need only to walk across campus to attend a professional sporting event. Students have also been able to buy tickets at a discounted price. See “Intimate,” Page 3


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