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From: izahi@portia.Stanford.EDU (Raul Izahi Lopez Hernandez)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Single Sex Colleges
Summary: No benefit...
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Date: 27 Feb 90 01:25:13 GMT
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In article <2412@randvax.UUCP> twinsun!usc.edu!karen%rand-unix.UUCP (Karen E. Isaacson) writes:

>What would be the
>benefits to the students of a school like this if the students were
>either entirely or mostly male?  Would there be parallel effects:
>women at women's colleges learn to be more assertive, would the men
>at a men's college learn to be more sensitive or be in better touch
>with their emotions or...?  (I can't even pose this question sensibly --
>I really don't understand what it is like to be a man in today's
>society...)

   Well, I can give you my position on such issue.

   I cannot see how a men-only college or university would be of any
benefit to a student.  First I buy the idea of men-only or women-only
primary schools, but at the age at which students enter college, it is
only beneficial to have interaction with the opposite sex on a daily
basis in the study environment.  In this environment team work, open
minds and social interaction are a must.  I'm no expert in sociology or
psychology but I don't think that it can be scientifically proven that
men-only or women-only high level education provides any benefit.

   I would dare to say that it could be damaging to the final assertion
of personality to exclude the opposite sex in the education environment.

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Raul Izahi Lopez Hernandez	izahi@portia.stanford.edu
Graduate Student, EE Dept.	"Nun, ich war und ich bin noch Student,
Stanford University	   	 denn ein Student bleibt ewig Student!" -DG