attend Mizzou in the 1940's? Is this what it was like?
In the late 1940s, Missouri law classified homosexual acts as felony crimes against nature. The university first began ousting homosexuals during this period, Anderson says, after Columbia developed a reputation as a "safe haven" for gay men.
Under orders from the state legislature, MU developed policies to halt the influx of homosexuals, and university officials set up a committee to investigate suspects, Anderson says.
To catch homosexuals in the act, Anderson says, the university installed a "one-way screen" in the men's restroom in Ellis Library, where discipline officials could secretly watch men engage in homosexual acts before apprehending them.
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