Posted on 10/03/2004 9:12:11 PM PDT by SmithL
AURORA, N.Y. -- More than a third of Wells College's all-female student body protested trustees' decision admit male students Sunday, sleeping in the lobby of the administration building or in the 15 tents set up on the lawn outside.
About 170 students protested for a second day after Saturday's decision to admit men to the 400-student school beginning next year.
Students in this Finger Lakes village will continue to protest until the board reverses its decision, said sophomore Rachel Crosbie. Opponents say they want to preserve the college's 136-year tradition as a school for women, and worry men may dominate the classroom if they are admitted.
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Me neither.
At Virginia Tech, I learn about diversity in two of my classes.... Why don't they feeel the same way?
Yup, their laws they wanted so badly only apply to us.
As I recall VMI had a tradition too. Sauce for the gander, ladies, turns out to be sauce for the goose.
While being a guy, I side with the women in this issue. They probably wanted to go to a female university, for whatever reasons, and all of a sudden the rules are changing. Considering how much male schools fought to keep from going co-ed, I have no problem with the female students protesting here. However, from reading the article, it seems that this school is accepting men to boost enrollment/revenue, so I guess these ladies should choose between their school going co-ed or out of business. In either case, it sucks for them.
VMI was a public school, this is a private one. This ain't a geese-gander kinda problem.
Garbage. That is the rationalization used to excuse the deliberate destruction of one institution while making the other off-limits. There is, in fact, no college that is truly "private" in that it takes NO government funding; hence the equal protection clause applies to all. This is not a case of freedom of association, it is a case of institutional bias allowed in one direction and not in another. I would have no problem with this institution being allowed to remain single-sex were that right accorded to single-sex male institutions equally. It isn't.
I bet it's mostly all the lesbians protesting. They don't want competion in what is up till now an exclusive captive hunting ground for thier prey. They don't want to share, and probably don't like bi-girls who were with yuky young men.
Lookee here, a college for men only. Only public universities have to be coed, which makes sense, because why would you want your tax dollars going to something that could exclude you?
Actually, you are wrong. Both Hillsdale College has never participated in any state or federal government programs. And do not recieve anymore government funding than any other insitution (i.e. fire, police, roads, etc.). For many years Wells did not either.
The dominant lesbos can't compete. Nature takes over and 98% of the girls get swept off their feet by men. Sorry, Maude, but we always win. We're men, and chicks dig us. And we have something you don't...
The Citadel had to admit women.
I don't have a problem with all-girls schools, btw, but nobody is forcing Wells to make this decision. What's driving it is the market.
And tell me why, if they are all male, that their Fitness Facility has Men's AND Women's locker rooms...?!
Your point?
My retort: Brown vs. Board of Ed.
What's driving it is the market.
True, but the girls are still getting hosed. However, they can transfer to Wellesley if exclusion is their thing.
VMI was made the object lesson for an organized campaign to destroy an all-male military institution not because it offered a single thing to a woman that she could not get elsewhere, but because it was a hide for radical feminists to takc onto their wall, and so they did. Apologizing for this outrage under the pious cover of public versus private is a pathetic copout. All IMHO, of course.
I dunno, but quoting the site: "Hampden-Sydney College is a four-year traditional liberal arts college for men." Perhaps they allow female faculty to use the facilities.
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