Argument174 【0706G－LOVEAW】第十六次作业 by iq28 (小组已散,欢迎别的孤魂野鬼~)

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TOPIC: ARGUMENT174 - The 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."
WORDS: 454          TIME: 0:27:00          DATE: 2007-3-4

The author's recommendation is based on an aliened survey and several steps of logical confusing inferences. I will discuss the flaws in the argument in the following details.

To begin with, the surveys themselves are problematic. The participants of the former survey are the students of the Grove College, and obviously they are all female. The reason why the choose Grove College is that they prefer all-female education; therefore, the results of the survey can be predicted before it has been conducted. The similar conditions may happen to the alumni, which causes them to hold opposite opinion against coeducation for the former opinion. Also, the desire of the female students and alumni may not equal to the correct develop direction of Grove College. They may be regardless of communication skills with the other gender, which is essential in their future lives. In such cases the survey is meaningless so that hardly can it lend support to the recommendation of the author.

Secondly, the author cannot hope a better morale standard without male students. Even if there are no male students in the school, female students can go out of school to date with their boy friends. And also, at the age of the college students, it is very common to have affairs which are apparent human nature. The college cannot assert that it is immoral for girl students to study with or even date boy students in the same college. Furthermore, morale standard consists of many other facts, such as to be credit, kind, brave or so forth. Such characters can never be cultivated merely thorough rejecting male students to Grove College. The college should focus on the real education in class to improve the standard of morale, rather than choose the female students as an excuse.

Finally, even such flaws mentioned above have all been modified, the author still cannot a lasting financial support from alumni. To gain the trust of the alumni does not only relate to a good morale standard. If the male students are still rejected, the female students in Grove College may lack the basic skills to communicate with the other gender, which is obviously the disadvantage of the graduators from Grove College. Also, the teaching quality and the research achievements are significant factors to judge whether a college is successful or not. So in spite of paying too much attention on the argument that whether should male students be admitted, other more essential jobs should the college's governing committee consider first, if they really want to gain the satisfactory of the alumni.

In summary, the Grove College should again consider the advantages and disadvantages brought about by their new admission regulation before they make further decision.