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Last Monday the Crimson started its win streak with a 14-3 drubbing of West Virginia Wesleyan and a 14-4 waxing of Wisconsin-Superior. In the first game a nine-run third inning and errorless play helped Ron Steward to a complete game triumph...
Sheila Tobias, associate provost of Wesleyan University, is a feminist with an interesting theory about why women fail to get certain kinds of jobs. Says she: "I had been deeply concerned with occupational segregation, the tracking of women into 'soft' fields that were considered appropriate for them. When I listened to adult women discussing going back to work, they kept talking about 'working with people.' What they were all avoiding, I realized, was anything based on mathematics. It just went click." A number of studies by educators have substantiated what Tobias has named "math anxiety." Among...
...need to destroy this mystification of math," says Sociologist Sells, and a few colleges are beginning to do just that. Not surprisingly, Wesleyan is among the leaders. Its math clinic, headed by Tobias, was founded in the fall of 1975 and relies heavily on psychological counseling. Initially, students-including men with so-called math blocks-are interviewed so that their "confidence level" can be discussed. Then students have a choice: an intensive review of high school math or participation in noncredit workshops, both with regular individual counseling...
...Radcliffe squash team scored a huge victory yesterday, 7-2, against Wesleyan in faraway Connecticut, a match that saw captain Julia Moore extend her winning streak to eight...
...course title-U4830Y, American Foreign Policy, 1945-1975-sounded ordinary enough, but the auditorium was S.R.O. at Columbia University last week. Reason: George McGovern was teaching again for the first time since he left his podium at Dakota Wesleyan University in 1953. His first lecture was about the role of Congress in foreign policy, but the Senator from South Dakota found that all the students' questions were on the subject of Viet Nam. Which was understandable enough. Said he: "Viet Nam has been the dominant factor of American life for the past 15 years. It would be a strange...