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SCU has flourished before without football.
This article from the Mercury News paper details how Santa Clara University had been a great institution when it did not have a football team in the past and how will it continue to be after the final disbandment of the team.
SCU announces elimination of intercollegiate football as part of university budget plan
Letter describing the several reasons for the discontinuation of the Santa Clara University football team. The letter emphasizes the financial struggles with maintaining a top level university and a division I football team.
Letter from Dean of Students, Charles Erekson, to President of Sigma Phi Epsilon, Thomas Bannan
The first draft and revised letter Charles F. Erekson, Dean of Students, eventually sent to Thomas A. Bannan, the President of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity at Santa Clara University telling the Fraternity that the University was formally withdrawing…
Coeds Return 20 yrs. later
Photographs from the 1981 reunion in which the first coed students at Santa Clara University met up twenty years after graduation.
"Fraternities, where men can just be themselves" San Jose Mercury Newspaper Article
San Jose Mercury newspaper article titled "Fraternities, where men can just be themselves." An opinion piece commenting on Fraternities' exclusive nature and the negative aspects that come with putting men together in large groups.
Catalog of Students At Santa Clara College from 1857-1858
The catalog of students that attended Santa Clara College.
SC's 'first women'
An interview with Kathleen Bui, one of the first coed students and alumni.
Richard Floyd L. Begin Scholarship letter of acknowledgment
A letter from John J. Donovan Jr. to Father Patrick A. Donohue acknowledging a thank you letter sent by Donohue to Donovan about the scholarship that he pledge to create to allow low-income African American students from the Diocese of Oakland to…
Tradition Shattered 1961-1986
A book about coeducation at Santa Clara University from 1961-1986 made by the Alumni Center.
Tradition Shattered
The front two pages of the famous 'Tradition Shattered' Santa Clara University newspaper after it was announced female students would be allowed to attend.