Apparently a lot of America's women's colleges are hoping to take advantage of the oil boom in the Gulf to recruit students from a part of the world where single-sex education isn't considered an oddity. For a long time while I was in college my girlfriend was a Wellesley student, and I remember that the student body there was an odd mix of mostly very feminist American women plus a smattering of foreign women from very traditionalist families who didn't seem to really understand that the remaining women's colleges in the U.S. tend to be less traditional than the co-ed ones.
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03 Jun 2008 12:03 pm
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Women's colleges often have male students in classes (through consortium relationships with coed colleges). And then there are situations like how at Mount Holyoke, most of the dorm bathrooms were coed, because separate facilities simply did not exist.
You also have to wonder what the sheiks thing when their daughters join the rugby team, if you know what I mean.
Maybe they should go after some Orthodox Jews. I actually went to one of the even fewer remaining all mens colleges in the US (Yeshiva College in New York - Yeshiva also has a college for women but it is located 150 blocks away). And in case you are wondering, I found it pretty awful. But Yeshiva is actually significantly less traditional than the (also single-sex) elementary and secondary schools I had previously attended.
Someone has to say it, so I will: You had a girlfriend?
I thought this was going to be a Bobby Darin thread.
Apparently a lot of America's women's colleges are hoping to take advantage of the oil boom in the Gulf to recruit students from a part of the world where single-sex education isn't considered an oddity.
The womens' colleges at Oxford were popular with foreign students from the Middle East for that reason, but with St Hilda's going mixed this autumn, that option's closed. (Cambridge still has two: New Hall and Newnham.)
We'll see whether the Department of Homeland Security makes life easy for the American colleges.
Apparently it's not just the "foreign women from very traditionalist families" that don't understand what's going on here.
Nicely put.
I went to Notre Dame (co-ed) and all-women's St. Mary's College across the road, in my humble opinion, produced smarter, more confidant, students.
Is "very feminist American women " an euphemism?
ah matt, I hope you used the right terms to refer to the shuttle bus between wellesley and mit and harvard . . .
the other part of this that isn't mentioned is that Wellesley, and I assume the other women's colleges, definitely advertise their programs as providing women with a world class education, and one that is well-rounded - at wellesley, i remember they trumpeted how many internation students we had, and it was a valuable part of my experience (i met students from rwanda, bosnia, pakistan etc)
ah matt, I hope you used the right terms to refer to the shuttle bus between wellesley and mit and harvard . . .
the other part of this that isn't mentioned is that Wellesley, and I assume the other women's colleges, definitely advertise their programs as providing women with a world class education, and one that is well-rounded - at wellesley, i remember they trumpeted how many international students we had, and it was a valuable part of my experience (i met students from rwanda, bosnia, pakistan etc)
I thought this was going to be a Bobby Darin thread.
Ha, that's pretty funny. Now I'm thinking Matt took this thread off-topic from the start.
ah matt, I hope you used the right terms to refer to the shuttle bus between wellesley and mit and harvard . . .
Does anyone call it anything other than the Wellesley College Senate Bus? I'm unaware of any other slang terms for that particular mode of transportation.
How are you gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Amherst?
How are you gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Amherst?
Re Matthew's comment "For a long time while I was in college my girlfriend was a Wellesley student "
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I think I've figured out why Matthew hates Hillary.
My apologies but I have to post this anonymously, but about 25 years at Harvard Business School the nickname for Wellesley was "the brothel." If things are still the same, perhaps need to update the name to "the harem" or "the seraglio."
This ties in nicely with my notion of an "Equity in Immigration" Act.
If a country is not a democracy (as determined by the State Department) or has more than a 2% disparity between men and women (targeted aborters) than one visa should be issued to a woman for every one issued to a man. You could adjust the numbers quarterly based on how many women actually show up. This would expose more women in these countries to the West and perhaps make them a force for change.
The Seven Sisters Motto: We will provide you with self-confidence in spades, as long as you provide us with tuition through the roof.
There was a huge fight in NJ when Rutgers threatened to end Douglass College as a women's college and absorb it into the greater RU. The most interesting aspect of the kerfuffle was their argument.
It wasn't: Hey, women *need* a women's college! It was: Hey, women *need* a women's college that doesn't require you to go into massive debt!
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Apparently it's not just the "foreign women from very traditionalist families" that don't understand what's going on here.
Posted by SoCalJustice | June 3, 2008 12:24 PM