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Forgive my alma mater if the best it can do for a homecoming queen is a student in drag. Wabash, a small, liberal-arts college in Crawfordsville, Ind., is all male--one of only three such schools in the U.S. The student newspaper is called the Bachelor, and freshmen still shout the school song from the chapel steps each fall with more ferocity and face paint than the Scots wore in Braveheart...
...closet. Physics major David Woessner, meanwhile, was inspired by works like Shane to embrace the 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...
Another liberal-arts ideal is "Know thy world," which is why, even as I prize the education I received there, I favor admitting women. Being all male hasn't always been easy for Wabash--especially after it voted down co-education in 1992. Right-wing think tanks, hoping to adopt the college as a mascot, mounted a nasty campaign to roll back the school's long history of multicultural studies, while hard-core feminists stormed the campus with politically correct, male-bashing lectures like "Athletes as Rapists...
...prospective students. The top schools are forced to waste valuable resources on recruiting, in fear of losing their top prospects to other schools. Smaller schools that want to compete in the big league are shelling out huge amounts to keep toeholds on the same applicants. Finally, incredible offers by Wabash States dampen the ability of a top school to hand-pick its incoming class (judged by the percentage of admits who matriculate...