At Hampden-Sydney College, single-sex education has never fallen out of fashion

Washington Post ^ | June 22,2003 | Neal Thompson

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At the end of his nine-hour drive from Ohio, Andrew Mitakides rolls through the brick-columned gates of Virginia's Hampden-Sydney College. Etched in stone on one column is a Latin mission statement: "Huc venite iuvenes ut exeatis viri." Come here as youths so that you may leave as men.

Mitakides passes students in blazers and ties, who wave at him as he drives down College Road past cupola-topped brick buildings and pathways that angle and arc beneath canopies of oak. Birch trees edge a fishing pond. A 180-year-old dormitory looks like it was imported from Colonial Williamsburg.

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The article says that Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia is one of only three all-male colleges left in the US. This could be true, even though the Washington Post doesn't always have the greatest fact-checking.

Sounds like a place conservative parents and students might want to give a look, although it's pricey ($28000/year is the nominal tab given; maybe there are scholarships).

[johniegrad]

My undergraduate alma mater, St. John's University, in Minnesota is one of the others.

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Actually, we'd have a much improved educational system if it was all single sex. The opposite sexes distract each other too much, boys being more distracted by girls than girls are by boys, but it cuts both ways. Having said that, I wouldn't ban coed schools. People should be able to choose which type of school they wish to attend. But it's a shame that we're down to only three all male colleges. I wonder how long it will be before the feds find an excuse to force them to go coed?

[Moose4]

Don't feel sorry for those young men at Hampden-Sydney. I grew up an hour from there, and can tell you that there is a major party circuit between the small colleges in central Virginia. It's a one-hour drive to Randolph-Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, and an hour-twenty to Sweet Briar College (another all-female private school) in Amherst (my hometown, w00t!). Plus Longwood College is right there in Farmville, close by.

H-S is a good school, a very good school.

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My undergraduate alma mater, St. John's University, in Minnesota is one of the others.

I've been impressed by how balanced the people from St. John's are that I know.

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Single-sex education was better for the young men at Notre Dame, per my father. My dad dated often, and is wooderful person. He says that it was good to have a relaxed atmosphere during school days, where you didn't have to worry about how you were viewed by the girls, who attended St. Mary's across the road. It was nice, he said, to just be able to wear a t-shirt.

He and his classmates have a much greater affection for their school than those that attended later, including me.

[thesharkboy]

My undergraduate alma mater, St. John's University, in Minnesota is one of the others.

I used to teach at the other one, Wabash College, in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Go Little Giants!

[FlatLandBeer]

Funny how the girl's at the public college Longwood University were not mention in the article. Only the "Preppy" girl colleges were mention. As for the men at HSC, my doughter says they are ok a friends but she really wouldn't date any of them.
She is in the Intervarsity Club(a Christian students group) that shares the chapter with HSC.


But talk about money one guy parents baught him a NEW Tahoe SUV just to haul his stuff back and forth to Kentucky.