Profiles of Change

Dartmouth's coeducational campus grew ever more united, as the Alma Mater was revised to include the daughters as well as the sons of Dartmouth and the graduating classes were nearing gender parity by the close of the decade. Meanwhile, the country saw its first female vice presidential candidate and its first female Supreme Court Justice in Geraldine Ferraro and Sandra Day O'Connor. On campus, new diversity initiatives continued to spring up, including the Ethics Institute, the Women's Resource Center (now known as the Center for Gender and Student Engagement), and alumni groups for LGBT and Native American communities.