'We are the girls ...?'

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'The University of Florida might want to rename its traditional game-day pep song "We Are the Girls From Old Florida."

Since 1998, female students have outnumbered males on the UF campus. Next year's incoming freshman class is expected to be 60 percent female - the highest level ever.

Nationally, women have long outnumbered men in college classrooms. In fact, UF is actually behind the trend and ranks last among state universities in the percentage of female students.
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The growing gender imbalance is "not a healthy situation," he said. He links the trend to a growing incarceration rate in the U.S. and an increasing number of men committing suicide.

He calls for changing the way in which boys are educated. Boys learn through a more active, hands-on learning style than girls, he said. Mischief-making boys are treated as criminals or sent to special education classes, he said.

"Boys aren't allowed to be boys today," he said. "They're treated as defective girls."'