sentences:  The closing of St. Teresa College came during an era that saw a general decline in women's colleges (other than the most elite) and the closing of, or switch to coeducation at, many smaller Catholic women's colleges.Recruiting was to some degree hurt by the school's insistence on maintaining a strict code of student conduct years after such things had been abandoned at other colleges.Such rules as nightly curfews and bed checks for first-semester freshmen and a total, campus-wide ban on alcohol were not eased until the early 1980s, and then only slightly.