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...boys at Vassar and Sarah Lawrence were the B.M.O.C.s just a few years ago as women's colleges rushed to open their gates to men. The nationwide push for coeducation in the early '70s brought hard times to women's schools that chose to exclude men. Enrollment tumbled, alumnae panicked and school officials scrambled to recruit new students. Now, however, the picture is changing dramatically. All-women's colleges will open this fall with their highest enrollment in four years...
...said that there were "great benefits to an all-women's scholarly community...
...have experimented with the agreement of students with separate classes for women in introductory physics in an effort to determine whether such an approach might encourage more women to study physics. Our thought has been that women may be deterred from taking the introductory course by the small number of women who enroll in physics and that we might be able to remove some of these inhibitions by offering all-women classes...
Brazell said the chorus suffered from insufficient financial backing and a lack of enthusiasm from its members. She said there had been widespread support throughout the University for the creation of an all-women chorus...
Students living in Canaday, which stands on the old Hunt Hall site, will be assigned to the all-women entry, the co-ed entry, or one of the all-male entries, according to their preferences, Gula said...