Am I the only one who wants to say "Icky dicky doo...who gives a crap?"

-Rudey
--Just wondering if I'm the only one.

ok, maybe you're not getting what i'm saying. i obviously wouldn't pay for something if someone else would pay. i said i've never seen it where and don't understand why a school WOULD pay for that. i would think there were better things the school could use those funds towards.

Mu_agd,

I wanted to go to a women's college as well, but my guidance councellor advised against it because she said that I needed to know how to mingle with boys (as if I (and the other girls I went to school with) didn't with the guys at the school next door). This is the best thing a girl at Wellesley can have, since she chose to attend a women's college. The school has the bus so that the girls have the chance to meet boys. They worry that the girls wouldn't do so if they have to pay to go to Cambridge (or wherever there are co-ed schools). Strange thing is this: The only women's college left in Canada is an affiliate with the University of Western Ontario, a co-ed school.

...especially in a city like Boston, where one out of four persons is a college student! :) You really don't need to go to MIT fraternity parties for a social life.

Of the other women's colleges I know (including the one I work at!), there is no funded socialization by the part of the college with the co-ed schools nearby. The alumnae of those schools never seemed to have a problem!

My college which is co-ed had a weekend bus to a local university. It was funded by the school so we could go to their library to do research. It had nothing to do with meeting men or women. :)

so true...

Guelph has a bus...

it's called the magic bus...it's transportation for students when the city transit stops running for the night...I'm sure you can meet guys on that, but that's not what it's for.

Really, if you're desperate to meet a guy, you'll find ways...schools don't need to be funding it.

No, that's not true. Some girls won't talk/meet guys unless the guys approach them, even if they desparately want it. I'm one of them. I had more guys approach me when I was in the play with the boys' school in OAC than in my first year at Queen's.

My neighbor went to Smith, another Seven Sisters college. She said the had teas at 4PM and socials with men from local colleges. This was not in the 1950s, but the late 1980s and early 1990s. Until Vassar went coed thirty years ago, they had socials with Yale. I think that it is a part of the tradition of the Seven Sisters.

See well that's your problem then...not the schools.


If someone is lacking the self confidence to approach a guy, then it doesn't matter if you're being bused to fraternity parties or the school is paying for you to have a social life, etc, etc. Someone can be bused to as many fraternity parties as they want but if they're going to stand in the corner and not talk to anyone, then that's they're own fault.

Girls need to meet guys. That's why we have events with guys' frats and why girls' dorms are often paired with guys' dorms. In first year, my rez had a cruise with the guys' and we also had a dance with the (co-ed) military college in town.

People need to meet people for a healthy social life. If you want the men to be brought to you, instead of being assertive, I can't feel too bad if you're alone.

I guess I'm just...cold. But I've always been in charge of my own social life.

I don't think you're cold. I agree with you

You can't be a wallflower and expect to have the man of your dreams magically appear in your arms.

cosign.

I wish someone had told me that when I was a teenager. It took me a while to figure that out. I was really shy.