Andrea Turpin, associate 
professor of history at Baylor 
University, 
presented 
a 
lecture on changes in views 
on the admission of women 
into institutions for higher 
education. Organized by the 
Bentley Historical Library, 
about 
30 
students 
and 
professors attended the event 
on Wednesday night in honor 
of the 150th anniversary of 
the admission of women to the 
University of Michigan.
Turpin, 
author 
of 
the 
award-winning 
book 
“A 
New Moral Vision: Gender, 
Religion and the Changing 
Purposes of American Higher 
Education, 1837-1917,” spoke 
about women’s struggle for 
admission at the University 
and their experiences with 
coeducation.
Turpin began the lecture 
by 
speaking 
about 
Alice 
Freeman Palmer, a student 
who enrolled at the University 
two years after it began 
admitting women in 1870. 
Turpin said Palmer convinced 
her parents to let her attend 

college as it would help her 
become a teacher, one of the 
few occupations widely open 
to women at the time.
“Alice Freeman Palmer’s 
influence winds through the 
development of three of the 
most prominent universities 
of 
that 
era, 
Michigan, 
Chicago and California, and 
two of the most prominent 
women’s colleges, Wellesley 
and Radcliffe,” said Turpin. 
“In other words, the advent 
of coeducation at Michigan 
mattered. 
It 
mattered 
a 
lot, not only for American 
higher education but also for 
American higher society.” 
Turpin said women did not 
usually attend college during 
the 1800s due to societal 
norms and expectations. 
“w”
According 
to 
Turpin, 
different views regarding the 
purpose of higher education 
shaped people’s opinions on 
women’s education.
“If 
serving 
the 
church 
meant only training ministers 
and most of the churches 
didn’t allow female ministers, 
it wouldn’t make sense to 
educate women,” said Turpin. 
“If serving the church was 

to educate as many people 
as possible to communicate 
the 
Christian 
message 
as 
intelligently as possible then it 
would make sense to educate 
women. In other words, it 
made sense to admit women 
to college if you believed that 
social change came from the 
bottom up.”
Turpin also said educating 
women was seen as a financial 
burden to some at the time. 
“It was, like many things, 
a question of money,” said 
Turpin. “You either had to 
raise the money to found 
entirely 
new 
colleges 
for 
them or you had to build more 
classrooms and dormitories 
for them at existing colleges 
whose funds were originally 
intended to educate society’s 
most influential leaders. Was 
it worth it?”
University alum Christina 
Karas said she attended the 
event to learn more about 
the history of women at 
the University and thought 
Turpin’s lecture was eye-
opening.
“I 
like 
how 
(Turpin) 
brought out things that I 
didn’t already know about the 
overall history of women’s 

lives at the U of M,” said 
Turpin. “We hear a lot about 
some certain specific women 
like Madelon Stockwell or, 
you know, Eliza Mosher, but I 
didn’t actually know as much 
about the broader student 
population and how they lived 
their lives.”
LSA freshman Rachna Iyer 
said she found it commendable 
that the University supported 
coeducation 
in 
the 
1800s 
at a time when many other 
places around the globe had 
contrasting views.
“As someone minoring in 
women’s studies, I learned so 
much about the history of the 
women preceding me at this 
university and their impact 
all around the world,” Iyer 
said. “It’s crazy to think that 
only 150 years ago I would not 
be able to join this university. 
It’s amazing to see how far 
we’ve come as a society, and 
although I know we still 
have got a long way to go, it 
is important to recognize the 
work of the women before us.”
Reporter 
Navya 
Gupta 
can be reached at itznavya@
umich.edu

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“Where this started was 
with some false claims being 
made 
about 
coronavirus 
... information was spread 
without all the facts, so this 
has led to a sort of hysteria 
around this topic, which as we 
know is often more harmful 
than helpful and can feed into 
xenophobia,” Minka stated, 

“I know that memes can be 
funny, but when we start to 
normalize coronavirus ... then 
we start to also say that the 
reactions and the xenophobia 
off of those is also normal.”
Minka 
then 
discussed 
other 
reasons 
behind 
the 
widespread panic, such as 
the lack of a vaccine and its 
spread outside of mainland 
China while reminding the 
audience to put coronavirus 
in perspective to other, more 

prevalent diseases such as the 
common flu.
LSA 
senior 
James 
Lee 
expanded on the history of 
Yellow Peril. Yellow Peril 
was 
the 
nationwide 
fear 
and 
systemic 
scapegoating 
of 
Asian 
Americans 
that 
emerged in the 19th century 
in response to large numbers 
of Chinese railroad workers 
immigrating to the American 
West. He also discussed how 
laws such as the 1882 Chinese 

Exclusion Act were created 
during this time period to 
specifically 
discriminate 
against the Asian American 
community. 
Lee then spoke on how these 
laws were created to deny the 
Asian American community 
power as well as how this fear 
of marginalized communities 
continues to have an effect.
“All of this (the laws) is 
really about the preservation 
of power not given to the 

