
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, May 18, 1990                   TAG: 9005180365
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-11   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: OAKLAND, CALIF.                                LENGTH: Short

MILLS COLLEGE WOMEN END CAMPUS TAKEOVER

Two weeks to the minute after Mills College trustees announced that the women's school would admit men, students ended their takeover of the sprawling Oakland campus, confident that the board will reverse its decision at a meeting today.

In contrast to their outrage when the board decided to go coed, the 200 students and alumnae who gathered on the green lawn of Toyon Meadow at 1:52 p.m. Thursday were clapping and laughing.

"We are victorious," student leader Anna Stravato told the gathering of student strikers who had marched to the celebration rally from encampments at six administrative office buildings that had been their homes for 14 days.

Stravato said the decision to stop the strike, which halted all college business, eliminated five days of classes and upset final exam schedules, was "an act of good faith" toward the board of trustees.

"We have made our point," said Stravato, a junior. "This strike is a dam stemming the tide of closings of women's colleges across the country." - Associated Press

by CNB