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Legal Issue

The Human Relations Council
feels that coeducation is a legal
issue as well as the obvious
advantages of the female point of
view in the classrooms. "The
Council," said Mr. Goldberg, "feels
that women have the legal right to
attend 'their' university." Mr.
Goldberg pointed to a recent report,
from the psychology department of
Princeton University noting that
the best students go to universities
and colleges with coeducation.

Mr. Goldberg added that the
Council agreed with other reasons
often heard such as the strain on
students and the distances that have
to be traveled to get a date.

He explained that many of the
Student Council candidates are
supporting coeducation and several
renowned educational institutions
are in the process of
coeducationalizing, most notable
are Yale, Vassar, and Sarah
Lawrence.