Board votes to make women's college coed (AP)

LYNCHBURG, Va. - Amid boos and shouts of "traitors!" Randolph-Macon Woman's College officials announced Saturday that men would be admitted to the 115-year-old institution starting in 2007. In the eyes of the board of trustees, going coed could help stabilize the school's finances as interest in all-women schools wanes. But when officials floated the idea last month, it drew a sharp response. Online petitions and campus protests decried the move, angry e-mail flooded in and one alumnae group even ...