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To: Road Walker who wrote (295318)	7/17/2006 1:42:32 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1574794

I also travelled to another state and worked to get out the vote for Kerry, so, maybe that was it. Events of late and since reassure me even more that my time, money and effort, while futile, was well spent.

To: Road Walker who wrote (295318)	7/17/2006 2:04:53 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574794

Did you post this one? I can't remember. In any case, its what I was saying in my response to one of your posts sometime in the past two weeks. Women outpace men on college campuses By Tamar Lewin The New York Times A quarter-century after women became the majority on college campuses, men are trailing women in more than just enrollment. U.S. Education Department statistics show that men, whatever their race or socioeconomic group, are less likely than women to get bachelor's degrees — and among those who do, fewer complete their degrees in four or five years. Men also get worse grades than women. And in two national studies, college men reported that they studied less and socialized more than their female classmates. Small wonder, then, that at elite institutions like Harvard, small liberal arts colleges like Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, huge public universities like the University of Wisconsin and UCLA, and smaller ones like Florida Atlantic University, women are walking off with a disproportionate share of the honors degrees. But, the gender differences are not uniform. In the highest-income families, men 24 and under attend college as much as, or slightly more than, their sisters, according to the American Council on Education, whose report on these issues is scheduled for release this week. Young men from low-income families, which are disproportionately black and Hispanic, are the most underrepresented on campus, though in middle-income families too, more daughters than sons attend college. In recent years the gender gap has been widening, especially among low-income whites and Hispanics. Although men are going to college in greater numbers and are more likely to graduate than two decades ago, they now make up only 42 percent of the nation's college students. "The boys are about where they were 30 years ago, but the girls are just on a tear, doing much, much better," said Tom Mortenson, a scholar at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education in Washington. Faced with applications and enrollment numbers that tilt toward women, some selective private colleges are giving men a slight boost in admissions. Professors interviewed on several campuses say that in their experience men seem to cluster in a disproportionate share at both ends of the spectrum — students who are the most brilliantly creative, and students who cannot keep up. Women now make up 58 percent of those enrolled in two- and four-year colleges and are, overall, the majority in graduate schools and professional schools too. Most institutions of higher learning, except engineering schools, now have a female edge, with many small liberal arts colleges and huge public universities alike hovering near the 60-40 ratio. In dozens of interviews on three campuses — Dickinson College; American University; and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro — male and female students alike agreed that the slackers in their midst were mostly male, and that the fireballs were mostly female. seattletimes.nwsource.com