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• Do I Have to Be an Astrophysicist?

  Posted Friday, June 20, 2008 11:09 AM By Kara Hadge
  
  While I can't answer Melinda's question of whether the bar for mothers-who-do-it-all was always set so high, as a young twentysomething just starting out in my career, I can see that bar vaulting upward among the women of my own generation. With few glass Read More...
  Filed under: feminism, art, college, science, math, guilt

• What Would Smith Do?

  Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 4:19 PM By Emily Bazelon
  
  Depressing findings from the Chronicle of Higher Education : Even though well-off colleges say they're trying hard to recruit low-income students, the numbers are going in the wrong direction. At the 75 schools with endowments over $500 million, the share Read More...
  Filed under: college, financial aid

• Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, etc.

  Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 3:25 PM By Rachael Larimore
  
  Torie, You and Jezebel are right that Heather Mac Donald goes off the rails with her rant against drunk college girls . Which is too bad, because before that, she was making an important point. At first I wondered, why is she rehashing this now? Because Read More...
  Filed under: women, sexuality, rape, college

• College Girls Are Easy?

  Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 3:57 PM By Torie Bosch
  
  In a Sunday column for the Los Angeles Times , Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute questions the incidence of campus rape, which is reported to affect 20 percent to 25 percent of college women. (Penn State, the college I attended, is among the Read More...
  Filed under: women, sexuality, rape, college

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