They might have forgiven that, but not when I wrote a column exposing the dirty little secret everyone else knew: during lunch hour, the campus segregated itself in the quad, with Jews sitting on the steps of Powell Library and gentiles at Royce Hall.
Privacy is important in Arabic culture and accordingly the campus is segregated by gender, separating the living quarters for single men and women and families.
Like many Middle Eastern university campuses, it is segregated by sex, with women and families living at one end and single men at the other.
Lowell was a virulent bigot who urged the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, started an investigation to expose gays and prevent their living in the freshman dorms, believed in segregating blacks in campus housing, vehemently opposed the Brandeis appointment in an infamous letter signed by 55 "protestants," and established quotas for admission of Jewish students.
It was because Athens, home to the University of Georgia's main campus, itself was still segregated, and many of the stories that the newspaper covered were based in town.
Integrated must be in quotes because dorms, sports, and most aspects of campus life were still segregated.
Within days, the sit-in protests, a crucial element of the Civil Rights Movement, had spread to campuses and lunch counters across the segregated South.
Forced by a court decision to allow guns on campus, the University of Colorado designated segregated housing this fall for students with gun permits.
In Washington, buses were still segregated and the system was replicated even on campus, where the so-called 'paper bag test' was enforced: if your skin was darker than the bag, you were put in one category, paler, into another.
An equal-opportunity exploiter of men and women -- and of all races, at a time when most magazines were still segregated -- Jaybird spawned a stable of titles like Campus Jaybird, even Women's Home Jaybird.
