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Better at sex education...
...fourth annual Trojan Sexual Health Report Card, released last week, Harvard lost 37 spots, moving from the nation’s 25th best (worst?) on the list of sex-savvy schools to number 62. The report, which ranks 141 colleges and universities, measures the availability of sexual health resources on campus based on student responses gathered by independent research firm Sperling's BestPlaces. Sperling rates schools in categories like sexual assault programs, availability of contraceptives, and student peer groups...
Flyby is a little confused by this poor ranking because we thought Sex Signals was a blast (wait, was that supposed to be educational?) And, as reported by the Crimson in 2008, 70 percent of students at Harvard are satisfied with the sexual education they are receiving (bear in mind, 42 percent of Harvard students had zero sexual partners during the past academic year, as reported by the National College Health Assessment...
...then earlier this week, infamous ex-sex blogger Lena Chen '09-'10 wrote an editorial in the Crimson entitled "The Abstinence Mystique." The title says it all. But the TLR people seemed to have taken Chen's message with a better attitude, claiming in yet another blog post that the piece was "more civil than last week’s Crimson fail." But in a comment to her own article, Chen says that Wagley's blog post "fails to address the contradictions I bring up about TLR's interpretation of feminism." More of her thoughts, Chen says...
...Women are a relatively new force on the marathon scene; for decades, 26 miles was considered simply too grueling for the fairer sex. The Boston Marathon in 1972 became the first major race to allow women; they were welcomed into the Olympic race in 1984. That's not to say it was the first time a woman had competed: in 1966, Roberta Gibb hid in bushes near the start of the Boston Marathon and then jumped into the race shortly after the starting gun fired, finishing (unofficially) in 3 hr. 21 min. 40 sec. The next year, Kathrine Switzer registered...