Gender Segregation
The facility opened before the introduction of coeducational housing at BU, and as such A and B Towers housed women, and C Tower men. This reflected the high female-to-male ratio, a statistic that BU is still known for today. Although the building is now coeducational, some floors remain exclusively female. When in use by the university's summer programs (Academy of Media Production, High School Honors, Summer Challenge, Upward Bound, Upward Bound Math Science, Visual Arts’ Summer Institute, Summer Theatre Institiute, Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists), one tower is exclusively male, while a second is exclusively female.
Read more about this topic: Warren Towers
Famous quotes containing the words gender and/or segregation:
“But there, where I have garnered up my heart,
Where either I must live or bear no life;
The fountain from the which my current runs
Or else dries up: to be discarded thence,
Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads
To knot and gender in!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!”
—George C. Wallace (b. 1919)