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Until last year, Ninotska Love would have been barred from attending Wellesley College. She’s an accomplished student who has persevered through hardship, but under longstanding rules, the college would have rejected her because she was assigned at birth as a boy. Now the rules have changed. This week, Love will become one of the first transgender women to attend Wellesley in the school’s 147-year history. “For me to be accepted to one of the best colleges for women in the nation, it is a big validation of the person that I have become. At first I couldn’t believe it,” said...

A study released today shows binge drinking by students at women-only colleges has increased since 1993 while the practice has remained constant at coeducational campuses. "Although women at all-women colleges still drink considerably less than women at coed schools, this finding could be an important shift among female students at these colleges," said Henry Wechsler, the study's principal investigator and director of College Alcohol Studies at the Harvard School of Public Health. "Our previous surveys found that attending college at an all-women school was very protective," Wechsler said. "That seems to be less so now." The survey was conducted in...