I am sure this guys reasons are completely pure. A single, 19yr old man, who does a semester exchange program at Wellsley College, and all female school. I am sure his motives are pure, no really.
Ok, maybe they aren’t. But I still say creative, outside the box problem solving. Too bad he is leaving at the end of the semester as a single guy. “A” for effort though.
You can read more about this in Boston Globe Article.
You, know- Wellesley is one of the top liberal arts colleges in America. Perhaps he was just looking to catch a glimpse of Wellesley’s brilliance.
Whatever.
No, seriously, there was a male exchange student who was there my senior year from Wheaton… apparently his reason was that both his mother and grandmother were Wellesley alumni, and he wanted to experience the school that his female relatives adored. I’m not sure if that was the real reason- I will say that he was not very popular on campus. We’re fairly hardcore about the single sex educational experience.
By: SLA on December 3rd, 2007
at 1:51 pm
I’m glad I went to a school with both sexes. We had coed bathrooms which was a great experience.
I laugh at the “single sex” phrase. For me the two words really don’t go together. If I’m Single I’m probably not having a lot of sex. Of course single can mean one but it makes me think about being single. My brain says, you probably are not having sex. HAHA
As for having a single sex experience. If a college is independent of gov’t funding then I feel they can do whatever they want. If there is a all male school this is ok too. A private institution should have the right to accept who they want based on their ideals.
The issue comes down to gov’t funding. If the gov’t gives a penny to the school then I think the school looses it choice of who the admit and who they don’t admit. Having gov’t involved in a school in anyway threatens the independence of thought process. The gov’t will start to put their rules and guidelines into these once private school. Eventually, individual thought will go out the window.
Think about public education. Gov’t tells everyone what they should learn. The education for local schools use to be made by local communities. The local community could choose what was important for their students. Now the federal gov’t has given a template on how all schools should be run because they are funding a large percentage of the education. Individual thought has gone out the window and so hasn’t choice.
Indepence is erased by security given by our gov’t funding. A gov’t handout doesn’t set you free!
By: John Moore on December 13th, 2007
at 6:57 am
