Word: singlesex
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps my own experience is not a representative one, but a singlesex education failed to prepare me for the world beyond--namely, high school. I'd like to 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...
...Leadership School because it discriminates against boys; young men who deserve the same opportunities as these girls. Although Congress drafted Title IX in response to decades of bias against women, sexual discrimination is not a one-way street. Inner-city girls might learn more in the school's singlesex environment, but society cannot sanction any kind of discrimination. Civil rights laws, arbitrarily enforced, lose all moral standing...
Whether they believe in singlesex institutionsor not, some students say the answer to theongoing debate about final clubs lies withHarvard...
...unfortunate it is, then, that those who have never made the effort to get to know Radcliffe do not practice a similar restraint. The men who tend to whine about Radcliffe's singlesex status apparently know nothing about the case. The majority of Radcliffe-sponsored programs are open to men as well: the Office for the Arts, Education for Action and the Radcliffe Dance Program, for example. What a coincidence the Radcliffe's offerings to the community should tend to cover areas that Harvard has tended to ignore. It has been argued that the existence of Radcliffe helps Harvard...
...teach me about bees and prairie plants until mid-high school, when I had to abandon beekeeping for academic pursuits. In ninth grade, I struck up a friendship with Regina, the youngest of his nine children. We were united in adversity against the hypocrisies of our respective schools, both singlesex pre schools...
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