Word: men
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After leading the Harvard men's tennis team to a stellar season, two players now seek to win themselves national acclaim...
...secondary schools. Five years ago, the debate in my local newspapers was over the formation of the Malcolm X Academy, one of three alternative public schools for black boys in Detroit. Supporters saw the schools as a potential solution to the social problems that disproportionately affect young black men such as dropout, unemployment and crime...
...bring up these examples because I find support for single-sex educational institutions perplexing in today's enlightened atmosphere that calls for integration on nearly all fronts. If there is a crisis among young black men, is the appropriate solution isolating black boys during the most formative years of their life? If equal educational opportunities exist in conventional public schools, what does it mean for these boys to be pulled out of the mainstream system...
...school. The rationale was that girls matured earlier, both physically and intellectually, and that during this time of divergent development, it was best to keep boys and girls apart, except for the occasional (and highly awkward) social function. On the boys' campus, teachers played off our desire to become "men." Men studied hard and played hard. Men tucked their shirts in their pants. In the hallways, testosterone-laden behavior, like body checks into the lockers, was rampant...
...think the notion that singlesex institutions are essential is an anachronism that will slowly pass. Yes, there are inequalities along gender and racial lines in the most powerful extremes of society. But isolating boys or girls in school fails to address the problems they'll face later as men and women. Andrew S. Cang '99 is a neurobiology concentrator in Kirkland House. This is his final column...