<p>razorsharp, as any lawyer could tell you, if you want to know what the law is, you can’t just look at the statute; you have to look at the cases.</p>
<p>Bryn Mawr really does exclude undergraduate men altogether:</p>
<p>[The</a> Character of Bryn Mawr College](<a href=“http://www.brynmawr.edu/character/]The”>http://www.brynmawr.edu/character/)</p>
<p>And Cornell really does have a single-sex dorm only for freshman women, and nothing reserved for freshman men:</p>
<p>[Housing</a> - First Year Students](<a href=“Residential Life | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University”>Residential Life | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University)</p>
<p>Re William & Mary, a cross on a chapel altar is VERY different from hanging crucifixes in virtually every classroom and lab as Notre Dame does. [Seen</a> and Heard on campus, Summer 2005, Notre Dame Magazine Online - University of Notre Dame](<a href=“http://www.nd.edu/~ndmag/su2005/sandh.html]Seen”>http://www.nd.edu/~ndmag/su2005/sandh.html) But to take a more extreme example, do you think that UCLA could advertise itself as a “Christian community of faith” as Baylor does? [Baylor</a> University || About Baylor](<a href=“http://www.baylor.edu/about/]Baylor”>http://www.baylor.edu/about/)</p>
<p>Yet you can use federal grant money toward financial aid at all three schools:</p>
<p>[Types</a> of Financial Aid – Bryn Mawr College](<a href=“http://www.brynmawr.edu/financialaid/fa_types_aid.shtml]Types”>http://www.brynmawr.edu/financialaid/fa_types_aid.shtml)
[Financial</a> Aid Award Components](<a href=“http://finaid.cornell.edu/Shared/AwardComponents.htm]Financial”>http://finaid.cornell.edu/Shared/AwardComponents.htm)
[Baylor</a> University || Admissions || Grants](<a href=“http://www.baylor.edu/admissions/index.php?id=24952]Baylor”>http://www.baylor.edu/admissions/index.php?id=24952)</p>
<p>For the clearest possible illustration of the differing treatment of public and private institutions, compare the VMI and MUW cases, where the Supreme Court said that the State of Virginia had to admit women to VMI and the State of Mississippi had to admit men to Mississippi University for Women:</p>
<p>[United</a> States v. Virginia et al., 518 U.S. 515 (1996).](<a href=“http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/94-1941.ZS.html]United”>United States v. Virginia et al., 518 U.S. 515 (1996).)
[Mississippi</a> University for Women v. Hogan](<a href=“MISSISSIPPI UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN, et al., Petitioners, v. Joe HOGAN. | Supreme Court | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute”>MISSISSIPPI UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN, et al., Petitioners, v. Joe HOGAN. | Supreme Court | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute)</p>
<p>with the unmistakable reality that Bryn Mawr College is still in operation.</p>