 | The Cavalier daily Thursday, February 19, 1970 |  |
Mary Washington
Called A Bordello
The following article is reprinted
from the South Boston (Va.)
Gazette Virginian, Dec. 24, 1969.
The Bullet, student newspaper of
Mary Washington College also reprinted
it. We do so here in hopes
that the average University member
might find interesting the alleged
activities at our sister college.
Ed.
Time was when parents could
send their daughter to Mary
Washington College at Fredericksburg
and after four years get back a
prim, polite and proper school
ma'am. But no more. Mary
Washington is now an avant garde
institution where hippies flower,
students march in Vietnam Moratorium
demonstrations and whiskey
is allowed to be consumed and kept
by the girls in their dormitory
rooms. They may also entertain
their male friends in their bedrooms.
Mary Washington may not be
more a motel or hotel for its paying
guests than any other girls school
these days; it just seems so. All
kinds of pretty shocking news
comes out of the school about the
new day of permissiveness granted
to the girls by the administration
and the board of visitors.
As we noted in the case recently
at the College of William and Mary
where students rebelled because the
school administration turned
thumbs down on entertaining girls
in men's dormitories at all hours,
this is a tax-supported institution.
Our feeling is that if the Mary
Washington administration is so
morally corrupt that it cannot offer
a decent place for a lady to reside
and study, the state authorities
should take action to relieve the
administrators of their duty. No
amount of belly wash about student
academic and personal freedom can
erase the fact that Mary Washington
is fast becoming a bordello and a
haven for women of loose morals to
retire to, in the name of going to
college to get an education. Off
with the heads of the administration,
fire the board of visitors, and
let's return respectability to the
school at Fredericksburg.
| The Cavalier daily Thursday, February 19, 1970 | |