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...York's problem, it's all our problem." Echoed the Chicago Daily News: "No thoughtful person takes delight in watching New York writhe. The health of that metropolis has a direct bearing on the nation's health." A recent survey by the Decision Research Corp. of Wellesley, Mass., found that 51% of Americans felt the Federal Government should help New York if "the city is in danger of going bankrupt." If true, that would be generous, but it seems likely that most Kankakeeans are actually concerned a lot less about New York than about Kankakee...
...relationships--with Radcliffe women, that is. It's hard to pin down the reasons for this, and of course they vary from case to case. One big factor is probably the fear that if you start something with a woman in your House, as opposed to a woman at Wellesley or Pine Manor, it will inevitably become something "intense." But another big factor is probably the mistaken impression that many men have that every Radcliffe woman has 2.5 men beating down her door. They just give up before they start. As a result, many of the women are developing...
...their 40s and 50s who were hired in the 1950s, when many women's colleges sought male professors as a sign of progressiveness and academic seriousness. In any case, today 71 colleges-a record-now have women in the president's chair, including Hunter, Wellesley, Goucher and Wheaton. Last month Smith College, the nation's largest private women's college (2,600 students)-and the school that produced Feminists Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan and Sylvia Plath-installed its first woman president. She is Jill Ker Conway, 40, an Australian who grew up on a sheep ranch...
Many other educators-and students-agree. Says Barbara Newell, 46, president of Wellesley: "Women coeds receive conflicting signals on the 'femininity' of intellectual vigor and do not take full advantage of college." Adds Susan Van Dyne, 29, a Smith faculty member: "In a coed school the dominant role for a woman is usually sexual." Evelyn Riedner, 21, a Wellesley senior, praises her school for the chance it gives women to learn leadership without strident aggressiveness. Says she: "Once you learn that in a supportive atmosphere, you develop yourself as a person first...
Women students may again tire of single-sex schools, as they did in the early 1970s. But many feel that their schools have a vital role to play in helping women achieve the self-confidence to push for equality in the outside world. As the Wellesley News has put it: "As long as women are kept off boards of trustees, out of jobs and in hot pants, the world needs a Wellesley College...