Episode 3: 1945. It wasn’t just all Frank Sinatra records and red lipstick. The end of WW II marked the beginning of a huge change for American universities. Between the GI Bill and the Baby Boom, college enrollment exploded in the midcentury. A college education wasn’t just for a select group of white students anymore. Students of different races and ethnicities, different religions, and different class backgrounds were all coming to campus for the first time. And they needed somewhere to live.