41.   The opinion leaves the state with the theoretical option of turning the college into a private institution, which would be free to exclude women.

42.   The state and the tax-supported military college say the school should be allowed to exclude women even if Virginia did not offer a separate program for them.

43.   The suit claimed that Merrill excluded women from opportunities for advancement and penalized them for taking maternity leaves.

44.   To exclude women of dubious respectability, Kasson writes, women were admitted only in the company of men.

45.   Thus, the court ruled that businesses or commercial gatherings like the Rotary Club cannot exclude women from their ranks.

46.   Traditionally, Hopi men carve kachinas and give them to women as representations of Kastina, the spirit of procreation, thus excluding women from carving the sacred objects.

47.   Using the system near the front put the troops operating it in direct combat and therefore excluded women operators, the generals argued.

48.   VMI, like the Citadel, wants to continue its tradition of excluding women from its student body.

49.   Women are excluded because the duty requires proficiency in hand-to-hand combat.