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Thirty-something Wellesley residents DaveMorton and Tim McCoy said they show up at almostevery Bruins game, and had never really thoughtmuch about professional wrestling before lastnight...
Uncovering similar tendencies in humans wasn't easy; McClintock began looking nearly 30 years ago. As an undergraduate at Wellesley College, she noticed that the women in her dormitory often developed remarkably similar menstrual patterns. In other animals, this kind of synchrony has survival advantages. "When you see others successfully rearing young," McClintock says, "it means it's a good time...
...Wellesley students chose to forego co-ed classes and dorms to learn, instead, in a single-sex environment. There are women here at Harvard who faced a similar choice, one whose importance was magnified by their single-sex high school experience. Having attended all-female high schools, (and even, in some cases, elementary and middle schools) these students came to Harvard looking for a change of pace...
Before they chose between applying to Wellesley or Harvard, Smith or Amherst, many women students already had to decide whether or not to go co-ed--in elementary and secondary school...
When the time came to choose a college, somestudents who attended all-women's high schools saythey considered enrolling in a single-sex schoolagain. Brandt, for instance, applied to Wellesley,but eventually decided against continuing hersingle-sex education...