Word: genders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beyond Our Normal Differences (BOND) is a group "concerned with providing a social space for Harvard undergraduates...where members can feel more comfortable with issues pertaining to sexual orientation and gender identity," the founders wrote in a statement. "The point of the group is not to talk about sexual orientation but to have social events both on and off campus...
...virtues of chivalry--when there are women around to practice them with. I ask the guys about the less than chivalrous behavior of President Clinton, whose attorney during the Monica Lewinsky mess was a Wabash alumnus, David Kendall. Says Scott Berger, a football player: "I think Clinton betrayed his gender...
Wabash, remarkably, has preserved its gender--and has even made it a trendy selling point. Men's colleges once looked about as viable as castrato choirs. But Wabash, independent since it was founded in 1832, is giving its Georgian campus a $100 million face lift, with modern science and sports facilities, and has just enrolled one of its largest and smartest freshman classes in years. It's a tribute to the college's richly intimate teaching traditions: its fewer than 1,000 students, from all economic backgrounds, often learn as much over dinner and wine tastings at professors' houses...
Academic reputation, of course, matters more than male bonding. "I came here in spite of it being all male," says a student who was lured by the demanding pre-med program. But for the time being, Wabash is reaping the rewards of being true to its gender...
...symposium Dunn is planning for late April, titled "Gender and Inquiry," gives a sense of how a single theme might cut across a wide variety of disciplines...