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What restrictions at the Nanterre campus angered students before May 1968?
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Before the events of May 1968, students at the Nanterre campus of the University of Paris were angered by restrictions on dormitory visits. Specifically, these regulations prevented male and female students from sleeping in the same rooms, which students protested as a source of sexual frustration.1