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12 The College of New Jersey Magazine P R A I R I E R E W I N D The youth vote New Jersey voted against lowering the voting age from 21 to 19 in Nov. 1970, but ratified the 26th Amendment in 1971, which dropped it to 18 nationwide. TIME CAPSULE A 1971 Signal photo shows an unfamiliar sight now: Dozens of people sprawled on Quimby's Prairie, kicking back. Get a pool noodle In 1973, the Board of Trustees dropped knowing how to swim as a requirement to graduate. Research sources include Annual Report of the President, 1970–1971, The Report As the decade got underway, President Clayton Brower (1971–79) and his colleagues flung themselves into further wrapping the vast apparatus of a 20th-century liberal arts college around a teachers college. (Mind you, a teachers college that had just awarded its first BA degree 10 years earlier.) With the release of the 1974 Course Bulletin, the college raised a glass to itself and its more than 50 areas of study across undergraduate and graduate programs, saying, "This [evolution] has been the most significant single development in [our] 119-year-long history." A broader curriculum opened doors for more full-time undergrads — 8,000 in 1978, a 44% jump from 1970. Good thing the college opened the 10-story, "ultra-modern" Travers- Wolfe Towers (above) in Fall 1971: The co-ed residence hall offered space for more than 1,000 students. 9¢ Daily cost for an in-room NJ Bell phone if you split the cost with your roomie —The Signal ad, Oct. 1970 Average U.S. income, 1970 $9,870 1970s

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