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- <text id=90TT1372>
- <title>
- May 28, 1990: American Notes:Sexes
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 28, 1990 Emergency!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 27
- American Notes
- SEXES
- Not Coed--Or Dead
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> When the trustees of Mills College announced three weeks ago
- that the only hope of saving the 138-year-old women's school
- in Oakland from a looming financial crisis would be to begin
- admitting undergraduate men next year, they were probably
- unprepared for the severity of the reaction. Students wept,
- boycotted classes and mounted noisy demonstrations, chanting,
- "Traitors!" and "Better dead than coed!"
- </p>
- <p> To help close the budgetary gap, graduates raised $3 million
- in a week-long telephone campaign, and started a rescue plan
- that would add $10 million to the college's $72 million
- endowment by doubling the yearly gift from the alumnae
- association. Last week Warren Hellman, chairman of the board
- of trustees, announced that Mills might not need to enroll male
- students after all. "You have had a lot of banners for us all
- week. Here's one for you," Hellman told a crowd of about 300
- cheering women as he unfurled a banner that read MILLS--FOR
- WOMEN. AGAIN.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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