There was a more social element to the place. Male students preserved their bonding and privacy by increasing their membership in fraternities. And alumni who quit giving money in protest rejoined the club just years later. There has been none of the effect that people predicted. If you have got to do it, try to do it right.
People have a choice.
Here, once people knew it was going to happen, they worked to make it happen. That makes a huge difference. Women constituted 18 percent of the freshman class. The move to coeducation was fought most bitterly by alumni who, much like The Citadel's now, were entrenched in the tradition and love of their all-male alma mater. He was in charge of implementing the school's transition to coeducation.