Criticism
Wesley College was male only until 1968, and has consequently been criticised for discrimination against women. In 1962, during a visit to the college, Germaine Greer accepted an invitation from tutor Alan Walker for a meal at the college's High Table and was taunted by students that she was the only woman who had ever dined there. Greer subsequently walked out of the meal to jeers and taunts.
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