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...large crowd heading for Boston and Cambridge reveals some of the social pressures that accompany going to a single-sex school. During the week Wellesley students toil in an all-female environment and find it difficult to fit in the 40 minute ride to Harvard. The commuting difficulties divides work and weekends, they...
...buses are the life-saver for us," says Debbie L. Dreyfus, a junior at Wellesley. "They are really the only way to get off campus on the week-ends...
...People at Wellesley resent the image of the bus and the tasty name people call it. It's not true," Harmer says. "I have a friend at Harvard and she said they hate Wellesley women. She says they think we can do whatever we want during the week, and then come out and put on a new persona for the weekend, while Harvard women have to put it on all the time...
...Wellesley women divide the riders into two distinct groups: a "Harvard group" of bus riders and an "MIT group." To which group people belong depends on whom you know at each college. But most of the women who got off at the Harvard stop say they just want to catch the T to get into to Boston. They say they really had to know someone to go to a Harvard party, which isn't nescessary at MIT frats...
...women are slightly touchy about the reputation of Wellesley women. Dreyfus says she "would kill anyone" who implied that she was "imported" for a party...