{"id":14780,"date":"2019-05-09T14:49:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T18:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/?p=14780"},"modified":"2019-05-09T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T18:50:00","slug":"experimental-dorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2019\/05\/09\/experimental-dorm\/","title":{"rendered":"SLGs Have Their Roots in Woman&#8217;s College Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Post contributed by Gia Cummings, <a href=\"https:\/\/library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/uarchives\">University Archives<\/a> student assistant<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among Duke\u2019s countless unexplainable quirks are sleeping outside for a basketball game, the first-year meal plan, anything to do with the transportation system, and most mysteriously, S<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>elective Living Groups<\/strong><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prospective students are puzzled by the concept, and Duke students stammer to conjure an explanation: it functions similar to Greek life but it\u2019s certainly not that; it\u2019s not a club but it\u2019s also not a friend group; you live together, but it extends beyond that\u2014and all of these responses leave you equally as confused. Eventually, as one transitions from wide-eyed first year to aloof sophomore, the questions fall away and the social landscape becomes comprehensible. And yet, the underlying question: \u2018what is an SLG?\u2019 slips away unanswered. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the definition of a Selective Living Group is concrete now, it began as a nebulous idea pioneered by some innovative students of the Woman\u2019s College, women who wanted to extend their learning into their living space. In 1961, the Women&#8217;s Student Government Association (WSGA) Council defined the reasoning\u00a0for the living situation in their &#8220;Proposal for an Experimental Dormitory&#8221;: <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14784\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14784\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14784\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2019\/05\/experimental-proposal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"646\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2019\/05\/experimental-proposal.jpg 646w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2019\/05\/experimental-proposal-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the &#8220;Proposal for an Experimental Dormitory,&#8221; 1961. <a href=\"https:\/\/library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/findingaids\/uawomans\/\">Woman&#8217;s College Records<\/a>, box 35.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This logic parallels modern-day defense of the selected living group system, wherein living with people of diverse backgrounds and thought processes is a learning experience in and of itself. The women of the Experimental Dorm, which was housed in\u00a0the Faculty Apartments (Wilson Residential Hall) beginning in the fall of 1961, had varying academic talents and interests: they organized themselves with the intentions of pursuing academic stimulation, learning for the sake of learning rather than learning for a course. The women read common books to expand their knowledge, but they also extended the experimental aspect past their studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14789\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14789\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14789\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2019\/05\/wilson.jpg\" alt=\"Color photo of the front of Wilson Residence Hall. The three-story brick building is Georgian in style.\" width=\"800\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2019\/05\/wilson.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2019\/05\/wilson-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2019\/05\/wilson-768x460.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wilson Residence Hall. The Experimental Dorm was housed on Wilson&#8217;s 3rd floor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At that time, students of the Woman\u2019s College had strict curfews and restrictions regarding their social lives and freedom, and the women of the Experimental Dorm took on an unprecedented level of self-governance. They requested self-monitoring on the tracking of their movements, along with control over the rules in their own house, and adopted a government-like structure that resembles the House Councils that each dorm currently has, with assistance from older (male) faculty members. The members organized a flexible leadership system that included rotating chairmanship and standing committees to address particular issues&#8211;including monetary ones, given that the members paid dues to be a part of this community. In this sense, and the selection process, the Experimental Dorm distinguished itself from the residential Corridors that would soon follow.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14792\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14792\" style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14792\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2019\/05\/experimental-govt.png\" alt=\"Typewritten page describing the government and organization of the Experimental Dorm.\" width=\"649\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2019\/05\/experimental-govt.png 649w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2019\/05\/experimental-govt-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Page from &#8220;Structures and Functions of the 1961-62 Experimental Dorm.&#8221; Woman&#8217;s College Records, box 35.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the vision of the Experimental Dorm prioritized \u201cintellectual orientation\u201d, they were intentional in not pursuing a specific academic community (like the later Corridors); in fact, the girls aimed to acquire a diverse group of interests in order to promote mental stimulation. As was recognized by these women, learning stems from exposure to new concepts and ideas; they aimed to choose members that stimulate one another. This aspect was evident in the fact that the Experimental Dorm took applications followed by interviews, attempting to select candidates who reflected a passion for learning. As the women outlined in their selection guidelines, their criteria specifically stated that they did \u201cnot want grade point averages or other specific records to be used in judging the girls\u201d and that \u201ceach choice would be made on an individual basis,\u201d with diverse interests being of particular importance. This dorm set itself apart by incorporating a social aspect along with an academic one: the Experimental Dorm was designed to create a community, not just a study group. In this sense, the ancestry of modern SLGs is clear, the creation of a group that shares similar values beyond their academic interests, designed to grow its members as people as well as students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Selective Living Groups today are often praised for their ability to bring people together; to create a learning environment in the dormitory alongside the classroom. The origins of those aims can be traced directly to the goals of the women who began the Experimental Dorm: a project which began to create a community, but whose effects have grown to become an important aspect of student life at Duke to this day. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post contributed by Gia Cummings, University Archives student assistant Among Duke\u2019s countless unexplainable quirks are sleeping outside for a basketball game, the first-year meal plan, anything to do with the transportation system, and most mysteriously, Selective Living Groups.\u00a0Prospective students are puzzled by the concept, and Duke students stammer to conjure an explanation: it functions similar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2019\/05\/09\/experimental-dorm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SLGs Have Their Roots in Woman&#8217;s College Experiment<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":14789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[551,11,170,53],"tags":[765,91,764,608,766],"coauthors":[652],"class_list":["post-14780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-from-our-collections","category-students-and-interns","category-ua","tag-dorms","tag-duke-history","tag-residentiallife","tag-studentlife","tag-womans-college"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SLGs Have Their Roots in Woman&#039;s College Experiment - The Devil&#039;s Tale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2019\/05\/09\/experimental-dorm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SLGs Have Their Roots in Woman&#039;s College Experiment - The Devil&#039;s Tale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Post contributed by Gia Cummings, University Archives student assistant Among Duke\u2019s countless unexplainable quirks are sleeping outside for a basketball game, the first-year meal plan, anything to do with the transportation system, and most mysteriously, Selective Living Groups.\u00a0Prospective students are puzzled by the concept, and Duke students stammer to conjure an explanation: it functions similar &hellip; 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