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From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ai.mit.edu.AI.MIT.EDU (John Purbrick)
Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal,soc.women
Subject: Re: Proposed lawsuit
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Date: Thu, 21-Jul-88 23:19:36 EDT
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Summary: You're being a bit unfair to poor MIT

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>Your site, MIT, Peter, didn't use to admit females.  There is still
>a lot of discrimination at your site, but most people are more
>discreet about it than you are, because they don't want to lose federal
>funding.....

You obvously know your trivia. Most people would say that MIT has admitted
women since its founding (1861) but in fact this isn't true; women weren't
accepted until the class of 1873, suggesting that the first woman arrived
in 1869, but I think she was a transfer student who graduated in < 4 years.

Discrimination, unfortunately, is just about everywhere. I doubt whether
any college is in danger of losing funding because of it. (Even Grove
City College!)