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In addition to academic and career advice, do college women need preparation for deciding if and when to have kids? One Barnard student argues that they do. More »
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Barnard College recently angered its student body by announcing that seniors will no longer be allowed to register (and pay) for part-time enrollment in their finals semesters. This means many students have to scramble to graduate early — and pay extra for that privilege. More »
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Why are women's colleges still relevant? As Salon's Margaret Eby points out, it's not because women can't handle playing with the boys. More »
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Ah, the fall semester of college. The crisp air, the drinking, the mostly-ignorant references to crypto-fascist texts spewed by someone who just took his first philosophy course! Which brings us to "James", a Columbia University student who wrote an "anti-feminist manifesto" on his Facebook page earlier this year in which he references Marx, Eve Ensler, and the Gnostic Sophia. (The Facebook page, which we are not linking to here, is currently set to 'private'.) According to a tipster, James was at a party in Columbia's East Campus dorm this past Sunday where a heated argument broke out after James began jawing to a Barnard student that he's never met an intellectual feminist in his life. (The tipster says the Barnard student slapped him and that the two "had to be broken up before the girl ripped the boy to shreds.") If only James could use those three dollar words to buy himself a clue. A shiny nickel to any reader who gets through James' marginally coherent screed, which is after the jump. More »
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The concept of gender in mainstream culture is becoming less conservative by the day. Of course it's not like being at Smith, but when Benny Ninja can vogue his little butt off on a graffiti-ed stage with a bunch of drag queens during prime time and no one bats an eyelash, you know things have come pretty far since Leave it to Beaver. One of the last truly gendered events is pregnancy — unless you're Thomas Beatie. Thomas is a man, and he's knocked up. Well more specifically, Thomas is biologically a woman, but he decided to go through gender reassignment. Getting down to the nuts (heh) and bolts of it, Thomas took testosterone and had his breasts removed, but he kept the vagina. His partner, Nancy, is unable to bear children, and because the pair really wanted a biological baby, Thomas went off his bi-monthly testosterone injections and after a few harrowing attempts, is now expecting a baby girl in July. More »
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