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HolyCoast.com (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that they'd n eed a rule for this : An all-male college in Atlanta, Georgia, has banned the wearing of women's clothes, makeup, high heels and purses as part of a new crackdown on what the institution calls inappropriate attire. No dress-wearing is part of a larger dress code launched this week that Morehouse College is calling its "Appropriate Attire...
Discriminations (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
The Chronicle of Higher Education today discusses a report arguing that colleges charging more for tickets to men’s basketball games than do for women’s games reflects pervasive, deep-seated sex discrimination. The report, "Ticket Office Sexism: The Gender Gap in Pricing for NCAA Division I Basketball," was published by the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... sons. Soong Mei-ling’s two older sisters traveled to the United States to attend Wesleyan Female College in Macon, Ga. Soong-Mei-ling arrived in America at age 10, studying at a boarding school in New Jersey and a public school in Georgia before graduating from Wellesley College. When she arrived at Wellesley in 1913, Ms. Pakula writes, Soong Mei-ling could lay on a...
Legal History Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Later this week in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, Wellesley College, and Lesley University are sponsoring a conference: "Law and Justice in the Middle Ages" (The New England Medieval Conference). Here are the details:Law and Justice in the Middle AgesOctober 30-November 1, 2009Harvard UniversityCambridge, MassachusettsRegistration info is here.The speakers are...
NarcissusWorks (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
http://www. dailynewstranscript.com/arts/ x880642941/Poetry-plus- printmaking-at-Wellesleys- Davis-Museum ------------------------------ ------------------------------ -------------------- WELLESLEY — Except for William Blake, few major poets have illustrated their own verse with memorable prints. But now, an often gorgeous exhibit at Wellesley College merges poetry...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... Obama? PS: Funny, we haven't heard Hillary Clinton weigh in on this. You know, proud graduate of Wellesley College, which . . . excludes men.
New Urban Legends (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... become more circumspect about allowing public access to their theses: Former First Lady 's 1969 Wellesley College thesis on community organizer Saul D. Alinsky, for example, was not available for examination by the public during the eight years of her husband's presidency, and current First Lady 's 1985 Princeton University thesis on "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community"...
Writer's Resource Center (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... — University of Arizona – Tucson, AZ Assistant Professor of Creative Writing (Fiction) — Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY Program Coordinator, Poetry Paths — Franklin & Marshall College , Lancaster, PA Visiting Position in Poetry — St. Lawrence University, English – Canton, NY Web Writer/Editor — ESRI – Redlands, CA Web Editor — Harvard University – Boston, MA Web Editor — Wellesley...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Jennie Pyers signs with a young deaf boy in Nicaragua. Pyers studied bilingual sign language speakers to solve the "tip of the tongue" question. Wellesley College From USA Today: On the tip of your tongue, that word you can't dig out. Why not? The tip of your tongue may be the wrong place to look, psychologists suggest. They find that hearing, sign-language speakers may hold...
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Colleges trying to encourage a well-balanced diet have a message for students sizing up that all-you-can-eat smorgasbord in the dining hall: What you don’t know can help you. More than a dozen Massachusetts colleges have recently embarked on a stealth...
Crunchy Con (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
... looked at bees as robots that would keep on trucking no matter what," says Heather Mattila of Wellesley College, who studies honeybee behavior and genetics. "They can't be pushed and pushed." In the beginning, honeybees and their partners, the flowers, drove an explosion of natural diversity. While most bees preferred a specific type of plant, honeybees were equal-opportunity pollinators--"pollen...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... Losing Air Dominance (2008); and The Tanker Imperative (2009). Dr. Grant received a B.A. from Wellesley College in 1985 and a Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics in 1989.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
NORTH ANDOVER - Colleges trying to encourage a well-balanced diet have a message for students sizing up that all-you-can-eat smorgasbord in the dining hall: What you don’t know can help you.
Harvard University Press Publicity (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Here at HUP, where we try to keep the flame for Walter Benjamin in some respects, we maintain connections with legions of Benjamin devotees throughout the academic world. One of them, Rachel Jacoff , Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature and Professor of Italian at Wellesley College and the editor of John Freccero's book of essays on Dante (HUP,...
CollegeHumor Updates (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
... come back to our room for a week and switched her room assignment the next semester. Molly Gibian, Wellesley College Keep Reading Written 2009-10-12 16:00:00 by Jeff Rosenberg from likes so far. Be the first!
