"Deep Springs is remarkably good with homophobia. It's a weird guy atmosphere--it waxes macho and it waxes queeny."
"You get away from gendering there," Wambsgans adds.
The debate over coeducation is the fiercest question at Deep Springs, so contentious that the board of trustees barred public debate of the question during a recent capital campaign.
The student-maintained website includes pro and con opinions about admitting women, and most of the Deep Springers volunteer their opinions on the matter.
Dewis says coeducation would ruin some of Deep Springs' special character.
"To the extent that Deep Springs is an exception to most colleges, the more of an exception the better," he says. "It's a shame there isn't an equivalent place for women. [But] I'm more concerned with there being a diversity in the kinds of schools out there."
But Erickson says that he feels his experience "was hurt by the fact that there weren't women there."
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