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Women students on Freshman Trip, 1972
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Despite these negative events, many of the women in the first classes later reported their pleasure at being at Dartmouth whether it was for their final year in higher education or if they entered as freshmen with the class of 1976.
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Women students at the time recounted having snowballs with rocks thrown at them and being rated on a scale of 1-10 as they approached the dining hall. In April highly offensive letters were shoved under the doors of women living in Woodward Hall that referred to the women students as “cohogs.”
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Things got off to a rocky start right early on when on September 26, a group of male students invaded Woodward Hall, an all women dormitory. They shouted rude comments, seized one woman and began to carry her away, and damaged property until the police were called. The students in Woodward noted that this was not the first instance of harassment at the time. Feeling the need for solidarity in the face of these attacks a group of women formed a new student organization Women of Dartmouth.
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Lorna Hill is likely the first woman to complete her degree requirements at Dartmouth.
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An article in The Dartmouth titled “Carnival Finds Most Coeds Dateless; Women Plan Weekend Boycott" resulted in a number of vitriolic exchanges between men and women students via letters to the editor.
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Women arrived on campus on September 5, 1972.
