<p>"The Class of 2009 is unique in that it includes two young women. In accordance with a long-standing policy that allows the children, sons and daughters, of faculty and staff to attend Hampden-Sydney, Sarah Archer, daughter of Frank Archer '73, Visiting Associate Professor of Fine Arts, and Nikki Reamer, daughter of Brenda Reamer, Helpdesk Coordinator and Office Assistant at the Computing Center, enrolled in the Class of 2009. Both young ladies will be day students."</p>
<p>How sad...I think, if im reading it right, what does it mean by "day students"?</p>
<p>day students don't live in the dorm. They just attend classes during the day and then go home where they presumably live with their parents. Why sad? It's a boys' boarding school. Presumably the boys who attend are not expecting any girls.</p>
<p>Since it says "long-standing policy" and it's for faculty/staff children, I fail to see an issue here. And attending as a day student makes sense to me too, since there's obviously not space in the dorms.</p>
<p>uhhh, jym, there are only 2 or 3 all-male schools in the country. There are many more all female schools. Are they all discriminatory? I don't know.</p>
<p>Well it's obviously not entirely a men's college if it will accept woman. What I think is sad is that the faculty and staff's daughters have not enrolled before, probably because of attitudes like yours and your classmates.</p>
<p>However I don't think that just because a school is exclusively a men's college, it is discriminatory. No one calls women's colleges discriminatory. :)</p>
<p>d) Educational institutions. Except as provided in paragraph (e) of this section as to recipients which are educational institutions, subpart C applies only to institutions of vocational education, professional education, graduate higher education, and public institutions of undergraduate higher education.</p>
<p>(e) Public institutions of undergraduate higher education. Subpart C does not apply to any public institution of undergraduate higher education which traditionally and continually from its establishment has had a policy of admitting only students of one sex.*</p>
<p>Title IX does not cover the admissions programs of private post-secondary institutions.</p>
<p>Wow-- funny how folks take the ball and run with it! I was being a bit flippant with Wabash because he felt it was "sad" that 2 women, children of employees, were being <em>permitted</em> to attend classes. Would it be any less "sad" if these women had been attending school in New Orleans and were now struggling to find a school to attend? Wabash's comment just reminded me of the "He-man woman haters Club" run by Alfalfa on the old "Our Gang" comedy show. Now I am SERIOUSLY dating myself with this reference. Anyone out there remember this??</p>
<p>I think it's sad these two young women have to go to school without the companionship of other women. That could be very traumatic if you ask me. I wouldn't do it to my D, anyway. Not to offend any of you fine young gentlemen of course.</p>
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<p>Maybe the young ladies who are daughters of faculty or staff are going to Hsc because it is either free or very inexpensive to offspring of faculty and staff.</p>
<p>If you have a problem with this policy, take it up with the HSC Board of Trustees. They, presumably, are the ones who created the policy. And please note that the policy does say "children, sons and daughters" so they had to have anticipated female students. </p>
<p>But I have difficulty being sympathetic to your concern that two female day students will lessen your all-male experience.</p>
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You are missing the point. Both Smith and Wellesley have exchange programs with other schools, and therefore have had men attending classes on campus for years. They are not trying to keep the men out, and are not "sad" that the opposite sex is on campus. That attitude is what is sad to me. I agree entirely with fireflyscout.</p>