[Alumni-chat] Antioch Interdisciplinary First Year Curriculum

[Gabe]

Seth,

That may be, but the issue has a particular relevance and expression at the
College we're talking about, where for years there were female (but probably
not as active a set of male) rugby teams.  That's fine for the young women.
I don't think it's as fine for the young men.

Gabe







> Gabe,
> 
> The imbalance between men and women is a global problem for almost all of
> higher education  in the US at the moment and I am willing to bet it is
> more pronounced on liberal arts campuses.
> 
> Seth Gordon '00
> 
> 
> Alumni Chat List <alumni-chat at w3.antioch.edu> writes:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> My 2-cents:  When a college's student body is only about 1/3 young men,
>> perhaps that ought to be a leverage point to consider working on.  Unless
>> of
>> course we all want the college to be eternally feminized.  I don't.  Many
>> young men have souls that need to be expanded, deepened, and unleashed.
>> I've tried to have this conversation with the last couple of presidents at
>> Antioch, to no avail.  Why?
>> 
>> Think about it.  Then think some more.  A freshman curriculum that
>> involved
>> some aspects of male initiation -- separation from the familiar descent,
>> trial, and return -- accompanied by study of the process (anthropology,
>> literature, psychology, etc.) would, in my humble judgment, go a long way
>> toward (a) stirring Antioch's male population, both youths and their
>> elders,
>> (b) marking the college as a place that is not only 'safe' for young men,
>> but truly appealing, and (c) restoring the natural balance between the
>> genders that ought to exist at the College.  Unless, of course, the
>> present
>> situation is what everyone wants.  I can't imagine it's what the young men
>> on campus want.  Which is why there are so few of them.
>> 
>> Gabe Heilig, '65
> 
> 
> 
> Seth E. Gordon, M.A.
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