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...voters of California sensed, as her feminist dinner companions knew, that starchy appearances can be deceiving. Feinstein does not look like someone given to discussing hysterectomies and high-stakes political battle at the dinner table. She looks like a casting director's idea of a Bryn Mawr president who must be bodily restrained from adding gloves -- or perhaps even a pillbox hat -- to her already ultra-conservative banker-blue suits and fitted red blazers and pearls. One San Francisco columnist refers to her "vulcanized hairdo," worthy of Margaret Thatcher. Other traits, however -- her stature...
...during the past 20 years, these women today are spread over a smaller number of institutions, boosting head counts at many of them. Since 1970, undergraduate enrollment at the surviving women's colleges has shot up more than 18%. Two of the strongest, Wellesley and Bryn Mawr, enjoyed a 6% surge in applications this year...
...female schools that remain, survival will require tough choices. To help brighten its bottom line, Bryn Mawr decided three years ago to phase out several graduate departments, pare faculty and staff, and gradually increase its undergraduate enrollment from 1,000 to 1,200. Russell Sage, in Troy, N.Y., has repositioned itself, aggressively courting "resumers" -- women over 25 -- who make up 22% of its undergraduates...
...tiny (615 students) liberal arts school, whose trustees are scheduled to vote in October on whether to admit men. To many young women the rush to coeducation has created a disturbing, and unjustified, diminution of educational choices. "Women's colleges have not become obsolete," maintains Catie Hancock, 21, a Bryn Mawr junior. "It is other factors that kill these schools...
...description of campus behavior that sometimes borders on the barbarous. This past fall, frat members at the University of Mississippi scrawled KKK and WE HATE NIGGERS on the naked bodies of two white pledges and dumped them on the campus of Rust College, a mostly black school nearby. At Bryn Mawr, freshman Christine Rivera found an anonymous note slipped under her door. "Hey Spic," it said, "if you and your kind can't handle the work here, don't blame it on the racial thing . . . why don't you just get out. We'd all be a lot happier." Members...