A lawsuit brought forward by several Tulane University alumni seeks to stop the school from closing a women’s college as part of the post-Katrina reconstruction.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in New Orleans, seeks an injunction blocking Tulane from closing its 120-year-old H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, one of the nation's first degree-granting colleges for women. The suit also seeks to bar the university from tinkering with Newcomb's endowment, which has been estimated at $40 million and is separate from Tulane's $745-million endowment.

While Newcomb and Tulane merged faculties in the 80s, Newcomb has a separate student government and programs for women. Women’s college advocates also say that women’s colleges give a “disproportionately high number of degrees in fields in which women have been historically underrepresented,” like math and science.

I went to Newcomb for a short while...I’m hoping they win this one.