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Education: Many Colleges Reject Women at Higher Rates Than for Men – US News and World Report

Education: Many Colleges Reject Women at Higher Rates Than for Men – US News and World Report:
Where girls face the biggest challenge is at small liberal arts colleges, like the University of Richmond and Kenyon College in Ohio. An op-ed entitled “To All the Girls I’ve Rejected,” published in the New York Times last year, set the college admissions world atwitter when it outlined the reality of what most officers had been seeing for years. “The fat acceptance envelope is simply more elusive for today’s accomplished young women,” wrote Jennifer Delahunty Britz, the dean of admissions at Kenyon, which, according to the U.S. News data, is not even among the schools that most heavily favor boys in their admissions process.

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this is what i would call demonstrably unfair. women should be treated as pure equals. the sole basis of this policy is the separation of men from women and generalized opinion that they aren’t equal. they should get past their puritanical single-sex dorms and build equal facilities and separate people not by floor or building, but by room.

June 18, 2007   1 Comment

Intellectual Property Watch » Negotiators Agree To Add Access To Knowledge To WIPO Mandate

Intellectual Property Watch » Negotiators Agree To Add Access To Knowledge To WIPO Mandate:
World Intellectual Property Organization members negotiating development-related proposals for WIPO’s future mandate reached preliminary agreement on several more key issues Thursday, including access to knowledge and exceptions and limitations.

well that’s a plus. now they’ll gut the concept.

June 18, 2007   No Comments

Kids Domain Crafts – Ice Cream in a Bag

Kids Domain Crafts – Ice Cream in a Bag:
Ice Cream in a Bag

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it’s science!

June 18, 2007   No Comments