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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwOtyKYJpyk]Creepy sleepwalker statue in underwear triggers controversy at US women's college - YouTube[/ame]
Wellesley ‘Sleepwalker’ Uproar: Have Women’s Colleges Outlived Their Purpose?
2 hours ago - by Jacoba Urist
A statue of a man sleepwalking in his underwear on Wellesley’s campus prompted a protest demanding its removal. Is it a sign of feminist activism or the last gasp of a dying institution?
Twenty years ago, when my Smith acceptance packet arrived in the mail, my father announced: Now that girls like you can go to top schools, women’s colleges no longer serve their purpose. As a tenured academic (and one-half of the couple footing my tuition), his words held particular sway. But it was my mother who really sealed the deal.
In September 1969, she arrived in downtown New Haven as one of 358 transfer students—the first women to attend Yale College. And as I remember her explaining it, sending her daughter to an all women’s college wouldn’t be just chafing against the progress she and her classmates had made. Going to Smith would be like re-encasing myself in a bubble she had helped pop. You will be a leader wherever you go, she assured me. You can hold your own in any classroom with any man, just as you will in the real world when you graduate. All things equal, my mother believed young women should always attend a co-educational institution over a single-sex one. And off to Johns Hopkins I went, without ever questioning my parents’ perspective.
Wellesley ?Sleepwalker? Uproar: Have Women?s Colleges Outlived Their Purpose? - The Daily Beast
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Wellesley ‘Sleepwalker’ Uproar: Have Women’s Colleges Outlived Their Purpose?
2 hours ago - by Jacoba Urist
A statue of a man sleepwalking in his underwear on Wellesley’s campus prompted a protest demanding its removal. Is it a sign of feminist activism or the last gasp of a dying institution?
Twenty years ago, when my Smith acceptance packet arrived in the mail, my father announced: Now that girls like you can go to top schools, women’s colleges no longer serve their purpose. As a tenured academic (and one-half of the couple footing my tuition), his words held particular sway. But it was my mother who really sealed the deal.
In September 1969, she arrived in downtown New Haven as one of 358 transfer students—the first women to attend Yale College. And as I remember her explaining it, sending her daughter to an all women’s college wouldn’t be just chafing against the progress she and her classmates had made. Going to Smith would be like re-encasing myself in a bubble she had helped pop. You will be a leader wherever you go, she assured me. You can hold your own in any classroom with any man, just as you will in the real world when you graduate. All things equal, my mother believed young women should always attend a co-educational institution over a single-sex one. And off to Johns Hopkins I went, without ever questioning my parents’ perspective.
Wellesley ?Sleepwalker? Uproar: Have Women?s Colleges Outlived Their Purpose? - The Daily Beast
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