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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Nina Tassler

Boston University’s 143rd Commencement Address • May 15, 2016

> When I arrived on campus as a freshman, my father drove me in our faux-wood-paneled country squire station wagon from Florida to Boston. We carried my boxes and single suitcase up the stairs of a really nice brownstone at 37 Carlton Street in Brookline.  
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> As we walked by the doors looking for my room, I noticed little cut-out flowers made of construction paper on each door. There were names written on each flower – women’s names – only women’s names. I very quickly realized that my dorm was one of the few remaining all girls dorms on campus.  
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> Are you kidding me?  
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> This was 1975. By 1973, 30 states had ratified the Equal Rights Amendment – co-ed dorms were on campuses across the country, I was a dedicated feminist, “Our Bodies, Ourselves” was published in 1971 by the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective. What was going on?

  
Read the whole speech: [Boston University’s 143rd Commencement Address: Nina Tassler](http://www.bu.edu/news/2016/05/15/boston-universitys-143rd-commencement-address-nina-tassler/)

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