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Essay Name       : 1373.txt 
Uploader         : Willy D Shott
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Language         : English
Subject          : Women Awareness
Title            : Citadel: Female bound?
Grade            : 82%
School System    : High School
Country          : USA
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Date             : 9-27-96
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	Hetter’s “End of and all-male era” is an accurate representation of society today. 
The debate of whether or not women  can do everything men can do will never end.  This
debate is discussing female enrollment in all-male colleges.  Virginia Military Institute and
Citadel should remain all-male; they were designed that way and should stay that way.
	In “End of an all-male era”, Katia Hetter discusses the case of allowing females to
enroll into the two state funded, all-male colleges, Citadel and Virginia Military
Institute(VMI).  A woman not allowed to attend VMI because of her gender, filed a
complaint against VMI six years ago.  Court ruled that the admission policy violated
women’s constitutional right to equal protection. The school was ordered to admit women
or give up state funding.  The article also stated that separating men and women makes
women out to be second class citizens.  Allowing women into all-male colleges would end
over a century of male exclusivity(50), says Hetter.  Citadel announced it will accept
qualified female applicants, effective immediately.  VMI, on the hand, will have a meeting
to debate whether the school will follow suit or become a private institution.
	Does prohibiting female enrollment into an all-male college really violate women’s
constitutional rights?  What right says that there can’t be all-male or all-female colleges?
There isn’t one.  All around the world there are female colleges and males aren’t allowed
to attend.  Just because VMI and Citadel are military colleges doesn’t mean they have to
allow boys and girls.  If someone wanted to start and all-female military college, there
wouldn’t be a problem with it.  It’s only because women think they have to prove they can
do everything a man can do.  I bet if these same schools were already co-educational, half
of the women wouldn’t want to attend.  It’s a challenge for most women to show they’re
as good as men.  They’re so obsessed with the women’s rights issue, they have to pick out
and ridicule everything possible.  If men want to have their own military college, so be it. 
Not allowing women into an all-male college has to do with the pride of certain women,
not their constitutional right.
	Is there such a thing as a first or second class citizen?  No, there’s only one type of
citizen no matter what color, race, sex, or what school one might attend.  If women want
to categorize themselves as second class citizens because they’re not allowed to attend
some school then that’s their own fault.  Men don’t consider themselves lower when
they’re not allowed to attend all-female colleges.  Life’s not always fair.  Women are
allowed to do certain things that men can’t and vice versa; that’s the way it is.
	Allowing women to enroll in Citadel and VMI was said to end over a century of
male exclusivity.  Men and women will always have different qualities.  Men have more
power and more strength.  Citadel and VMI are designed for men to perform to the best
of their ability. If women were allowed to attend, men wouldn’t always stay fully focused
on their training.  These two colleges should stay all-male no matter how qualified a
women is.  The strongest woman will never be as strong as the strongest man, it’s a fact.
	Women’s rights is an issue that will never end.  Women will always debate whether
or not they can do exactly what a man can do.  Certain things are designed for men and
certain things for women.  Citadel and VMI are just two examples of this.  These two
schools were made for men and only men.  Women should learn to accept the way society
is and quit trying to challenge it.  Quit trying to make simple things difficult just because
they feel they have to prove something.  Segregating colleges,especially military colleges 
has more positives then it does negatives; therefor it should remain the way it is.




Hetter, Katia,” End of an all-male era”, U.S. News and World Report, July 8,1996, 
	pages 50-51	 
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