Admissions: An Audio History You Didn't Know About (Food for Thought at Brown)

From time to time, in view of the upcoming Supreme Court decision on admissions and affirmative action, we have been posting Gatecrashers podcasts on Jewish admissions semi-quotas to the Ivy League at mid-century. Today, the featured campus is Brown where the issue was food. From the Gatecrashers description: 

While today most American universities offer all sorts of dining accommodations, the on-campus dining scene in the 1950s was far less welcoming for students with specific dietary needs. For students who observed the Jewish dietary laws known as kashrut, and therefore didn’t mix milk with meat or eat pork or shellfish (among other restrictions), their options for elite colleges were narrowed even further, often to schools in big cities where kosher meat and other offerings could more easily be procured.

Apparently, Providence, Rhode Island was not one of those "big cities."

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To hear the text above followed by the Gatecrashers podcast (with extraneous announcements removed), click on the link below:

https://ia801402.us.archive.org/25/items/big-ten/brown%20admissions%20food.mp3