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To: RightWhale
Engineering programs are five intense years. PreMed similar. Extreme competition and anybody who can’t compete shouldn’t even dream of becoming engineer or doctor. Takes more than talent.

I've been following this stupid Title IX debate for a while. One of the justifications is that there are nw more women in medical and veterinary programs than men, but not in just as challenging physics and engineering programs. What I hate is the idea that they want to implement "co-operative" learning where teamwork and effort are rewarded above problem solving. They want to do to colleges and univeristies what has been done to highschool education - simplify it so more women can graduate.

19 posted on 04/24/2008 10:19:04 AM PDT by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what an Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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MIT biologist and equity-activist Nancy Hopkins says that contemporary science “is a system where winning is everything, and women find it repulsive.”

No, women find unsuccessful men repulsive, which is why we flock to demanding, productive, stressful and then highly lucrative fields like biology, physics, and mathematics. A man who majors in a touchy-feely feminized major and flips burgers after college does not attract a mate easily.

21 posted on 04/24/2008 10:48:18 AM PDT by Shigarian
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To: doc30
teamwork

Have seen no good come from this. The group leader would do well anyway and the rest get nothing and they would have got nothing anyway, group or no group.

22 posted on 04/24/2008 11:36:57 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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