The private women's liberal arts school said the policy stems from the legally binding will of its founder, Indiana Fletcher Williams, who died in 1900. Listen to Story Sweet Briar College bars ...

Sweet Briar has about 460 students —- known as Vixens — and was established in 1901 on Williams’ estate, a former plantation in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Sweet Briar’s leadership said the document requires it to “be a place of ‘girls and young women.’” The phrase “must be interpreted as it was understood at the time the Will was written ...

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Greater Cincinnati Water Works has been urging customers with lead pipes to replace them for eight years. Now, it will redouble that effort, at the federal government’s direction.

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In a move that has upset students, alumnae and faculty, Sweet Briar College announced earlier this month that it was changing its admissions policy and will no longer accept transgender applicants.

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On a Monday, Aug. 26, episode of her podcast Broad Ideas with Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen, the Hart of Dixie alum, 43, shared that her daughter Briar Rose, 9, whom she shares with ex Hayden ...