All Women?

Randolph Macon Women’s College in Richmond, Virginia is being sued by nine of its students over the issue of making the school co-ed. The girls wish for them to not change until 2010 when they would have all graduated. They complain that when they applied to the school no one told them that there was any contemplating about making the school co-ed going on. There are still many all women colleges left, but there are only four all male: Hampden-Sydney, Wabash College, Morehouse College, and Deep Springs.

I have never wanted to go to an all women’s college so it is hard for me to say how I feel on this issue. However, it is a women’s college and I’m sure that was a big deciding factor for the women who chose to go there. So for them to have that suddenly taken away from them without any warning is not very fair. However, it is not very fair for men to be declined to a school just because they are a male. If this school wishes to start accepting men I think it would a good idea for them just to make a brother school that would be just for the males. Having the opposite sex around can sometimes make a distraction and I’m sure many women feel more comfortable in a setting with all women where they feel they do not have to compete with males. I can understand both sides here therefore it is hard to say, but I can say that no way should be denied an education because of their sex or race.