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Within the constraints of this separate and often unequal system, early White female students, and the leaders who were responsible for them, created a vibrant and distinctive female culture at Southwestern. To contemporary eyes, it may look stifling and even bizarre, but in other ways it reflects the resilience of the first minorities on campus as women sought to make an institution built by and for White men work also for them. </p>","postscript_text":"","tour_img":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/fullsize/7223d4f996c655211c0384b560c7b253.jpg","items":[{"id":81,"title":"Mood Hall was twice a female dorm","latitude":30.634639063548601001230053952895104885101318359375,"longitude":-97.66671349702681936832959763705730438232421875,"thumbnail":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/square_thumbnails/7223d4f996c655211c0384b560c7b253.jpg","fullsize":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/fullsize/7223d4f996c655211c0384b560c7b253.jpg","subtitle":"Mood Hall  is remembered as a male dormitory, but it also sometimes housed female students.","address":null,"custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":80,"title":"The Mood Hall 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Should we take this opportunity to also change its name?","address":null,"custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}}]}