174The following recommendation was made by the president and administrative staff of Grove College, a private institution, to the college's governing committee.

"We recommend that Grove College preserve its century-old tradition of all-female education rather than admit men into its programs. It is true that a majority of faculty members voted in favor of coeducation, arguing that it would encourage more students to apply to Grove. But eighty percent of the students responding to a survey conducted by the student government wanted the school to remain all female, and over half of the alumni who answered a separate survey also opposed coeducation. Keeping the college all-female, therefore, will improve morale among students and convince alumni to keep supporting the college financially."

In this argument, the author concluded that the GC should maintain as a all-female college. To justify this conclusion, the author indicates that in a survey 80% of the students are willing to remain all female, the author also cites another survey which among the alumni and shows they oppose coeducation too. However, this argument suffers from several doubtful flaws, and is further more unconvincing.

In the first place, the result of the survey which shows there are 80% of the students support to maintain female-school is unreliable. The author provides no evidences to imply that the sample of this survey can represent the whole students. the mere fact over half of the alumni who replied the survey opposed allowing the male students is unauthentic too. It’s entirely possible that the alumni who accept to participate in the survey are the ones who strongly disagree with the coeducation. Unless other valid evidences, the results of these surveys are indefensible.

Secondly, Even assuming many alumni are disagree with the coeducation, the argument contains no evidences to support the conclusion that the ones who supplied the college financially in that. Even if they really want the college to remain only female, it doesn’t mean they will stop the supplement if the college allows male students.

Finally, the author fallaciously assumes that remain the tradition will increase students’ morale. But in fact, I found no relationship between them. Lacking concrete evidences involve this conclusion, I can hardly believe the only-female college do any use about morale.

In sum, this argument is unpersuasive as it stands. To bolster the conclusions, the author must shows the necessity to remain the only-female college. We also need more details about the surveys, then to better evaluate this argument.