2 Trustees Try to Block Deep Springs College From Going Coed

Two trustees have asked a judge to block Deep Springs College, a highly selective two-year institution on a working farm and ranch in eastern California, from admitting women for the first time in the fall of 2013, the Los Angeles Times reported. The Board of Trustees voted, 10 to 2, last September for the college to go coed. Now the two trustees, Kinch Hoekstra and Edward Keonjian, both alumni, are trying to reverse that decision, arguing that enrolling women would compromise the college’s founding mission to educate “promising young men,” the Times reported. “If the trustees wish to have a coeducational college similar to Deep Springs, they are free to donate or raise the funds to create one according to their own vision,” the two trustees said, according to court documents.