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Jonathan Monheit is more than just a big man on campus. He is the only man on campus. When the 19-year-old freshman transferred to Goucher College near Baltimore in January, he was the first male to enroll full time since the school decided to go coed last year. The distinction has its burdens. Monheit lives in a dormitory guest room, gets ribbed by male friends and, when introduced to otherwise supportive Goucher peers, is often greeted with "Oh, so you're the one." Says he: "You get a very isolated feeling sometimes...
Educators criticize some of these plans as too gimmicky and bottom-line oriented, with too little emphasis on students' abilities. Among the more controversial programs: Goucher College's 100th-anniversary gift of two scholarships at 1885 rates ($100 per year), and Fairleigh Dickinson's "twofdr," under which a student's sibling can enter at half the regular tuition of $5,670. One critic of such gambits is Bard President Leon Botstein, who scorns them as "desperate marketing of a silly kind" designed for show rather than education. Citing his plan, which is limited to students who rank among...
...seems very inappropriate to invite someone like Smith who is known for the oppression of human beings," said C. Ashford Baker from Goucher College in Towson, Md., one of the protesters...
...head full of ideas for new work. Since settling in the U.S. he has finished two more novels, both of which are scheduled for American publication. "I've got no time for nostalgia," says Aksyonov in fluent English. He teaches a seminar in Russian literature at Goucher College near Baltimore, and once a week his reviews of new U.S. fiction are broadcast to the Soviet Union over the Voice of America. In addition, Aksyonov and his wife Maya extend nonstop hospitality in their Washington, D.C., apartment to Soviet exiles passing through the capital...
...supporters vowed vengeance for the amendment's defeat. The National Women's Political Caucus issued a "dirty dozen" list of state legislators, all male, who "roadblocked the Equal Rights Amendment." More constructively, they pledged to elect women to office in far greater numbers. Said Goucher College Student Anna Maria Halkousis: "In America, over half the population is female, but we are not the better half and not even the other half. In government, we are still the missing half...