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'A committee was formed earlier this calendar year to address Wilson College's financial struggle and find ways to make the college financially sustainable in the future. At an open presentation Nov. 1, the Commission on Shaping the Future of Wilson College made several recommendations, including the co-ed option, for increasing enrollment from 700 this fall to 1,500 by 2020 and easing the budget deficit.

The commission gave its final recommendations to President Barbara Mistick Monday. She must hand over her own recommendations by Dec. 1 to Wilson's board of trustees, which will make the final decision. Until then, students are doing what they can to sway decisions.

"We want Wilson to keep that 'it' factor of being an all-women's college because there aren't that many left in the United States. We don't just want to become another mediocre co-ed situation," said Janelle Wills, president of Wilson College Government Association.

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'Feminists who want to limit opportunities for men and boys have long abused Title IX when it comes to college sports. Now we can expect the same assault against men who are interested in math and science. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 requires that schools and colleges receiving federal funding not discriminate “on the basis of sex.” Radical feminists have used this law to abolish hundreds of men’s sports teams, including 500 wrestling teams.

The Obama Administration has announced a new set of policies that would apply Title IX to science, technology, engineering, and math courses. Just as enforcement of Title IX has caused gender quotas on school sports teams, increased enforcement in math and science education will bring us artificial enrollment limits on men. Legal precedents have made it very difficult for school sports teams to comply with Title IX without imposing gender quotas, and it’s unlikely that math and science education will be different.'

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'AUSTIN, Texas — The Greater Texas Foundation (GTF) has awarded Project MALES a grant for $335,314 to support Hispanic and African American male student success in college enrollment and degree attainment. Project MALES is an initiative within the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement at The University of Texas at Austin.

The grant will be awarded over a three-year period starting in summer 2013 to support the Texas Higher Education Consortium for Male Student Success, an ambitious statewide initiative that will align existing programs that target underrepresented male students in higher education and stimulates new initiatives within Texas colleges and universities.

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'Movember marks the month when men have been encouraged to grow moustaches in support of fighting prostate cancer and raising awareness of male mental health issues. Many men are taking part of this endeavor and putting the razors down.

A 13 year old boy in Britain also wanted to take part and grow a moustache. However his school has banned him from partaking in it because it is not an “inclusive” activity.

Gus Hooker began shaving since he was 9 years old and decided to participate in Movember by growing a moustache and raising money for Prostate Cancer UK by joining men (and boys) around the world growing facial hair for Movember, the BBC reports.'

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'The lessons also teach students how to “avert pregnancy and STDs in situations ranging from drinking and going for a ride with one’s boyfriend, to being alone at your boyfriend’s house in the absence of parents for several hours, and when your ‘boyfriend begins to kiss you and tries to take off your clothes.’”
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According to LifeNews, the homepage of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Virginia promotes “Man up Monday” with “an image of a pair of men’s boxer underwear with a huge fishhook protruding from the fly, proclaiming, ‘Hook up this weekend? Make sure you didn’t catch anything.’”

After clicking on the link, “one sees a similar pair of underwear—this time with flames flashing from the fly—with the caption: ‘Hot weekend? Get checked for HIV and STDs.’

Also: Planned Parenthood Introduces Man Up Mondays: http://www.ppsev.org/

Maureen Dowd does if nothing else speak her mind. In this case, probably not in typical feminist party line, but she's got enough chits collected where she can stray from time to time without losing her club card. Article here. As always with the NYT, use Google to get around the login box. The URL is:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/21/opinion/dowd-turning-brass-into-gold.html

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'As The Times’s Scott Shane writes: “The major players have hired high-profile, high-priced representatives to manage the fallout, watch for legal trouble, police the press and massage damaged reputations.”

And, no doubt, pave the way for future book deals, cushy jobs and TV apologias in honeyed light with Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters.

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'Now that the election is over, the ruthless political ads have stopped, and the majority of Facebook newsfeeds have gone back to descriptions of what we had for lunch that day, it’s time to get back to reality. It is amazing how fired up people can get over politics, but after the big day, we lose that passion. No matter how exhausted you may feel, civic duty does not end at the polling booth. Regardless of your political affiliation, we all have either known someone or been the victim of domestic violence ourselves. It is a societal disease that permeates through class, age, religion, gender, race, culture, education level and sexual orientation.

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'The first two women to begin one of the Marine Corps toughest combat courses washed out within a week this fall. The Corps had temporarily lifted the restriction on women attending its Infantry Officer Course—one of the toughest schools in the U.S. military—in a nod toward greater equality through its ranks.

After both failed to make it beyond one week, what's next for female Leathernecks, or women in other services,who want to work in combat units?
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About a quarter of the men who begin this sought-after course wash out before graduating.

Unlike other schools the Marine Corps offers for both male and female candidates, the first women to enter IOC were held to the same physical standards as their male counterparts.'

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'On Saturday, Nov. 10, AARP Connecticut sponsored a half-day conference for Boomer-age women on "Living Longer, Living Smarter and Reinventing Yourself" at the Pond House Caf at Elizabeth Park in West Hartford. The conference, attended by more than 150 women, featured a keynote address by well-known Connecticut TV broadcast personality, Diane Smith, and a moderated panel discussion with professional experts and the women who have lived it on topics including, Adult Education, Health and Wellness, Entrepreneurialism, Finances, and more.

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'The release listed five possible reasons why women generally do better at financial spread betting, those being:

- Men hate to be wrong and take longer to admit that they have made an error;
- Women are better in a crisis and less emotional because, contrary to popular belief, female traders are more disciplined and less likely to panic;
- Women can more easily say no and sometimes the best trades are the ones you do not make;
- Women read the manual, stick to a strategy and question things that they are uncertain of; and,
- finally, women are measured as opposed to jumping in head first - which men are apparently prone to doing.'

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'The opening of a new multi-million dollar baseball field in Sitka earlier this fall is polarizing the community in an unexpected way: Can or should it be used for softball, too?

Gender equity in public education – including activities like sports – is governed by a federal statute known as Title IX.
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“This whole issue, it’s kind of petty. Where we’ve got one team saying, Hey, your new field is better than my new field, so we want your new field. Then we get Title IX thrown at us, to be displaced off of our field and get the girls on.”

Displacing the boys is at the heart of the argument for most parents who spoke on behalf of the baseball team during the two-hour work session. In establishing equity, Title IX should not disadvantage one gender to create opportunity for the other.'

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'LUCKNOW: The first objection to Women Powerline 1090, UP Police's helpline for women to curb eve-teasing and telephonic harassment came for a quarter that was as obvious as unexpected-boys, who cried gender bias.

"Do you have any service for boys who face similar harassment at the hands of the girls," a boy shot the question at a woman operator at the call centre on the opening day on Thursday leaving her puzzled, a source told TOI. The trained reply from the call operator was that the service was meant strictly for women in the state.

Another male caller, who was probably aware of the basic surveillance methodology, went a step ahead to tell the operator, "Will the police send a girl to jail if it is proved that the said call was being made by herself," yet again leaving the women call operator perplexed, till a senior official of the centre pitched in and tried to convince the boy that though his concern was genuine the service was meant only for women.'

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'More than half of HR professionals are biased against overweight women, while nearly two fifths are biased against men, according to a survey conducted exclusively for People Management.

Special bias tests were taken by 122 HR professionals to measure their unconscious prejudices in a range of common areas such as age, gender, weight and disability. The tests, designed by specialist provider Hogrefe Implicity, revealed that almost 40 per cent of those surveyed showed a preference for one gender (overwhelmingly, they were in favour of women).

The tests, which assess unwitting associations of gender and competence, found that men were the losers with 37 per cent of respondents revealing a bias against them. Yet only 1 per cent showed a prejudice against women.

However, when asked about overweight women, 51 per cent of respondents revealed a bias against them at a level “likely or very likely” to affect their behaviour. Yet only 4 per cent showed a bias against “slimmer women”.

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'BRUSSELS, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The European Commission wants to make companies favour female non-executive board candidates where they are equally qualified so as to raise the proportion of women in boardrooms to 40 percent, EU sources said on Tuesday.

One source, who declined to be named, said the commission plan did not set a binding EU quota for all member states but rather set an "objective" of having 40 percent women by 2020 - suggesting that an earlier plan for a strict 2020 deadline had been dropped.

But another EU source, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said the preference rule was "tied to the legally binding objective of 40 percent by 2020, which means that if by 2020 companies have not reached 40 percent and have not been appointing women instead of men, then they will also face sanctions".'

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'What is most troubling with Judge Mawla is that he did pro bono work at WAFA House, which stands for Women Against Family Abuse. It is there that he helped abused women file restraining orders, find shelter and receive job training and financial assistance. Given that domestic violence allegations seem to exist mostly in divorce and custody related matters, Mawla made his fortune off of women making domestic violence allegations against men. He has a built-in gender bias against men and should not be sitting in judgment in Family Court matters.
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Judge Mawla has incarcerated John Waldorf for owing alimony arrearages. However, it was Mawla who made the insane order that Waldorf pay over $8,000 per month in alimony and child support at the time of Waldorf's divorce. Or, in other words, Waldorf was ordered by Mawla to pay almost $100,000 in alimony.