Besides being about 10 years late on the female-campus-majority meme, the article misses some other big points. Namely, it takes the dating anecdotes and stated preferences of young college students at face value. Wasn't it the NYT crowd that moaned "everyone lies about sex" during the Clinton impeachment?
Some of the student quotes are pure gold for unintentional, read-between-the-lines reasons, but one really sticks out as telling of the whole situation: A female student at UNC complained about the stacked odds (roughly sixety percent women) on her campus, but then without hesitation said that only about twenty percent of the males on campus were truly worthy of her consideration. There is nothing in the world wrong with this women's opinion, but the article truly hits new heights of naivety by suggesting that students such as her are simply forced into lonely girl's nights with "George Clooney" and "pizza."
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