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...they aren't? Monty's editor at Random House, Deborah Futter, sees the many accusations as "part of a family squabble." Monty himself, a friendly, convincing talker, boyish smiler and earnest eye contacter, is not apologizing. Choking back tears, he told an audience recently, "When you read that book, that was my life." It was written for his maltreated friends, the world's horses. "Don't take this wrong," says Monty to a reporter who has grown skeptical, "but if everything I said was 100% false, look at the good it's doing...
Barnard President Ellen Futter, at Barnard College, New York City: "Education is empowerment -- individual and national . . . For the United States of America to be populated by a citizenry that is uneducated is a prescription for disaster and a sentence to everlasting mediocrity...
...still simply accept their wives' careers, others are assuming a more active role by attending business functions and parties with them. John Shutkin, a New York attorney with the accounting firm of Peat Marwick Main, often makes social rounds at the side of his wife, Barnard College President Ellen Futter. "Sometimes I feel like Caesar's wife," % admits Shutkin. "I've got to watch my behavior." Still, he notes that men in his position are often the beneficiaries of a double standard. "I suspect that I get a lot of Brownie points that I probably don't deserve. With...
Other women's colleges offer similar programs. Many promise applicants "the best of both worlds" through cross-registration arrangements with nearby coed colleges. "This is no cloistered enclave," says Barnard President Ellen Futter. "Our students have an absolutely coeducational life by virtue of our participation in Columbia University." Yet the best women's schools remain shrewdly protective of the special position they occupy in the highly competitive college market. Many educators, and some alumnae as well, believe that schools like Skidmore and Vassar, once bellwether women's colleges, have slipped in both status and educational quality since they decided...
Bryn Mawr President Mary Patterson McPherson believes single-sex institutions play an important role by contributing to a pluralistic approach to education. She frets about the sameness of so many American colleges: "There aren't many institutions anymore that have a very clear image." Futter concurs, "We are dealing with an increasingly franchised commodity. This isn't hamburgers; this is education." Finally, educational leaders are far from convinced that the women's movement has erased the prejudices that gave rise to women's colleges in the first place. "Maybe there will come a day when women and men will...