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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 27, 1991                   TAG: 9102270489
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-10   EDITION: METRO 
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HOLLINS COLLEGE ALSO DISCRIMINATES

I CAN THINK of nothing as ludicrous as seeing the daughters of those responsible for the civil rights movement speaking about education rights won in "Brown vs. Board of Education" in a place as bigoted as Hollins College.

Is it because Ms. Brown Smith is a woman that she does not notice that Hollins, like so many other "woman only" and "men only" learning institutions, is practicing the very same philosophy of sexual discrimination?

Were those sit-ins at restaurants in the South for service despite race, religion or gender so quickly forgotten? Were those and other protested companies like them not private businesses? Have we not since won the right to be allowed the service of these private businesses?

Not, it appears, at Hollins College.

Is education any less important than getting a cheeseburger? Should Hollins and its kind be allowed to deny equal service because women vainly continue to demand equality out one side of their mouths while condemning the loss of the sexual purity of Hollins College out the other? JOSEPH M.P. TARI ROANOKE

by CNB