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Protests and Pushback: Women's Rights, Student Activism, and Institutional Response in the Deep South
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Cain, Timothy Reese; Dier, Rachael – History of Education Quarterly, 2020
Pivoting around two sit-ins at the University of Georgia, this article examines student activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the US South. The first sit-in, at the conclusion of the spring 1968 March for Coed Equality, was part of the effort to overcome parietal rules that significantly restricted women's rights but left men relatively…
Descriptors: Activism, Feminism, Females, Dormitories
Sexiled: Privacy Acquisition Strategies of College Roommates
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Erlandson, Karen – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2014
This study sought to understand how roommates make privacy bids in college residence halls. The results indicate that privacy for sexual activity is a problem for students living in college residence halls, as almost all participants (82%) reported having dealt with this issue. Two sets of responses were collected and analyzed: privacy acquisition…
Descriptors: Dormitories, Privacy, Sexuality, Student Attitudes
College Students' Revenge Goals across Friend, Romantic Partner, and Roommate Contexts: The Role of Interpretations and Emotions
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McDonald, Kristina L.; Asher, Steven R. – Social Development, 2013
Residential college environments provide young people with distinctive relationship opportunities and challenges. A major purpose of the present study was to learn whether college students respond differently to conflict-of-interest vignettes in three different relationship contexts. Students were more likely to make negative interpretations about…
Descriptors: College Students, Interpersonal Relationship, Friendship, Correlation
Does It Matter Where?? College Students Live? Differences?? in Satisfaction and Outcomes as a Function of Students' Living Arrangement and Gender
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Long, Larry D. – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2014
The purpose of this study was to compare the Experiences of students residing in on-campus housing with those of students residing in fraternity/sorority housing, specifically to explore the differences in academic success, alcohol use, and perceptions of the living environment as a function of students' living arrangement and gender. The…
Descriptors: College Students, College Housing, Place of Residence, Gender Differences
Preliminary Findings from a Brief, Peer-Led Safer Sex Intervention for College Students Living in Residence Halls
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O'Grady, Megan A.; Wilson, Kristina; Harman, Jennifer J. – Journal of Primary Prevention, 2009
The purpose of this study was to evaluate a single-session peer-led safer sex intervention, based on the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills theoretical model, for college students residing in campus residence halls. Participants (N = 108) were assigned to either an hour long control or 5-module intervention session. Compared to the control…
Descriptors: College Students, Disease Control, Intervention, Dormitories
Analysis of Personal Study Time and Leisure among University Undergraduates in Southern Nigeria
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Olubor, R. O.; Osunde, U. A. – College Student Journal, 2007
Among the major tasks facing the modern day youth is how best to manage his/her time productively. With the plethora of problems facing the Nigerian undergraduates, it becomes necessary to find out how the Nigerian undergraduate spends his time. Two thousand four hundred full time undergraduates formed the sample of this study. Simple percentage,…
Descriptors: Social Life, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Study Habits