In the early days of women’s admission to UW–Madison, female students weren’t required to have escorts for routine activities like attending class. However, the Women’s Self-Government Association (WSGA), established on November 13, 1897, regulated the social conduct of female students. Tasked with overseeing matters not covered by faculty jurisdiction, the WSGA hosted parties, organized career conferences, wielded shovels at groundbreaking ceremonies, and enforced a strict set of rules that all undergraduate women were required to follow. Early regulations included a prohibition on female students going horse and buggy riding without a chaperone and bans on appearing off-campus without hats and gloves. The longest-standing and most restrictive campus-wide WSGA rule was the “women’s hours” curfew, which limited how late they could be out. If women failed to return home by 10:30 p.m. on weeknights, they would be locked out and forced to find their housemothers to be let in. In 1963, those rules were relaxed: seniors were granted total access, juniors were allowed unrestricted weekends, and freshmen and sophomore women were required to return by 11 p.m. on weekdays and 1 a.m. on weekends. The introduction of coed dorms in 1972 marked the beginning of the end for gender-based conduct regulations. From then on, if anyone found themselves locked out late at night, they probably just forgot their keys.