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Yeah, yeah. We are the only four year college in marin County, which is a big county, 521 sq mi and 206,000 people. We think we should serve the community where we're located as fully as we can and we think we will serve it more fully by

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being co educational. Also for our students. There are no other colleges obviously nearby. And this means that as far as social life is concerned, there simply are not young men of college age in the vicinity. That would be a good thing. Does this mean changes for

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the college itself? Well, surely it does. However, it will not mean engineering programs or uh, what are sometimes typically the masculine academic programs. We are liberal arts college and we hope the college will attract young men who want that kind of education as far as the

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campus goes. I think not the campus is 100 acres or so and we think we have room for some expansion in the population of students. Do you feel that there will be advantages to the school itself. Do you think it's going to help to solve any

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problems that you might have financial or otherwise? I think more students will help to solve financial problems or although certainly financial problems are more complicated than that. Our faculty student ratio right now is 1-10. That's an expensive ratio. We think it could be 15-1 without substantially

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altering the faculty student relationship or the quality atmosphere of the campus. Are there any young women on the campus who are perhaps a little upset with us because they came here to get away from a co educational institution? I don't know if upset is the right

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word, but there is a bouquet of pink roses on the desk in my office from two students who, after hearing the announcement this morning, went downtown to the florist and came back and said these are from the silent minority. They are transfer students from community colleges,

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and they are disappointed today, but they're taking it in good humor.