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...College.Other schools, including Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, have taken a more liberal approach towards mixed-sex housing. At Penn, upperclassmen may apply for coed rooming, according to the school’s Housing and Conference Services website. At Columbia University, some residential buildings allow for coed suites. Wesleyan, Swarthmore, Brandeis, Tufts, and New York University also support coed arrangements.The future seems promising for Harvard roommate combinations of all types. Associate Dean of Residential Life Suzy M. Nelson has noted the coed trend among other schools and plans to form a committee on housing policies...
...tennis tournaments across the country; male fans sometimes wave signs proposing marriage at her. And her talent is for real: she was a two-time Yugoslav national champ in singles and mixed doubles, and after moving to the U.S. she won the 2004 national collegiate championship playing for Texas Wesleyan University. Golic downplays her potential role as the future face of table tennis. "I hope people enjoy the game--that's the most important thing," she says. "But if we can give them an extra something by looking good, there's nothing wrong with that...
...with “Preludes/Prayer,” a simple yet inviting dance which was choreographed by Peter DiMuro with contributions from the rest of the company. The second piece, “Ferocious Beauty: Genome,” is an excerpt from a piece that will premiere at Wesleyan University in February 2006. According to program notes, the full work—the product of a three-year collaboration with scientists from all over the country—will address the biological and ethical issues raised by genetic research, from the nature of aging...
Caving willingly to pressure, Wesleyan College’s imprimatur has been accorded to a group that wants to educate professors and incoming freshmen on the use of the transgendered pronoun “ze” and its possessive...
...pronouns like “he” and “her” no longer suffice, a person can only shy warily away from the shudder-inducing “it” and mumble inaudibly. Has political correctness finally exhausted the capacities of the English language? Wesleyan University has turned to a gender-neutral alternative: “ze.” “Students use it to refer to people who have requested it as their pronoun,” Zach Strassburger, a member of the Weseleyan Trans/Gender Group, wrote in an e-mail...