Boys are dumb, or the feminist "equalization" measures have beaten the tar out of them, causing them to eschew college. Just another article documenting what everyone knows and efforts in California to get more men on campus. Excerpt:
When some women hear that college administrators are trying to get more men onto campus, the rhetoric begins to fly. Feminists say women need to be encouraged to attend college, to graduate, to move into white-collar jobs. After all the work to gain an equal academic playing field for women, they ask, do you expect women to go backward?
Hold your fire, says Mortenson. The gender war on campus is over. Women won.
"The women's agenda has so dominated, people sort of sneer at you,'' he says. "What are women complaining about? They are about to take over the world. Which is great, by the way.''
Johnson agrees. Women need not feel threatened.
"It's not that we are going to kick the women out,'' he says. "We just want more men.''
Don't hold your breath, say some experts. As long as girls are doing better in elementary, middle and high school than boys, they will continue to comprise a larger number of students on college campuses.
"Young women dominate honor societies, are more apt to be valedictorians and head for the elite colleges,'' says Judith Kleinfeld, a professor of psychology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks who is making an extensive study of high school boys. "Many colleges now have under-the-table 'affirmative action' for boys to keep their numbers up.''
