The revealing confessions of fourteen college women and their free-swinging experiments outside the classroom.If there were a Dean's List for outspoken candor, these fourteen women would be on it. Listen to them as they tell you about their "extracurricular activities" in the hotbed of the Free Speech, Free Drugs, and Free Sex movements. They came to college to learn about life -- and that includes a lot of things you never read about in textbooks.
Meet the Women of the University:
SALLY JO -- a self-proclaimed "perpetual virgin," a pampered Southern belle who adores all kinds of men -- as long as they're white.They're The Girls on the Campus, and they do a lot of things you won't find listed in any college catalog!LAUREL -- her happiest memory is the night she was "devirginated" -- she's been struggling to find herself.
ESMY -- a dedicated teacher, devoutly religious, terrified of becoming a "frustrated old lady."
INGE -- a clown in the classrooms, a heavy drinker at home, living in a fantasy world full of handsome, willing men.
CONNIE -- a nice girl in nasty company, strung out on heroin and divorced at twenty-one.
JENNIFER -- a traumatic childhood left her a prudish "straight arrow" -- but a tall, handsome black athlete changed all that.
Author's Note:
The Girls on the Campus is about fourteen women at a Midwestern state university of excellent academic reputation.
As in a previous study (The Girls in the Office, Simon and Schuster, 1972), the subjects speak for themselves, and I am reluctant to add colors or shadings of my own.
A condition of each interviewee's cooperation was anonymity, and I have respected that condition, primarily by changing all names except those of historic personages.
Like Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, nonfiction authors "have always depended upon the kindness of strangers," and in this case I have been totally dependent upon the women of the university. I thank them once again for their frank and sometimes painful cooperation, and I dedicate this book to them with sincere admiration and gratitude.
Jack Olsen