Mills College Students Protest Decision to Admit Men in 1991
Perhaps someone can explain why:
1) When women are introduced to a previously all-male environment, it is termed, in so many words, a victory for women everywhere and a further breakdown of the barriers between men and women.
2) When men are introduced to a previously all-female environment we hear things such as, “This is a women’s institution and we will not accept this,” and “ . . . students fear the arrival of men will destroy what they call the nurturing atmosphere at Mills.”
Is a nurturing atmosphere a one-sided thing? I can imagine the reaction of women if an all-male student body sported T-shirts saying, “Better Dead Than Co-Ed.”
GORDON MORRIS
Glendale
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