Across the Sea

Apparently a lot of America's women's colleges are hoping to take advantage of the oil boom in the Gulf to recruit students from a part of the world where single-sex education isn't considered an oddity. For a long time while I was in college my girlfriend was a Wellesley student, and I remember that the student body there was an odd mix of mostly very feminist American women plus a smattering of foreign women from very traditionalist families who didn't seem to really understand that the remaining women's colleges in the U.S. tend to be less traditional than the co-ed ones.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/06/across-the-sea/45202/