11.14.2009

NPR: Do Private Colleges Favor Male Applicants?

NPR reports that in recent years, private colleges have admitted a significantly larger number of males than females to their incoming freshman classes.

St. Edward's gender breakdown is split 40 to 60 percent, favoring females.

Listen to the story here.

11.12.2009

Op-Ed: Trading Women's Rights for Political Power

Kate Michelman (former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America) and Frances Kissling (former president of Catholics for Choice) have an op-ed piece in The New York Times on the Stupak-Pitts amendment.

Although certainly under this administration many strides have been made for women, they echo my disappointment that what could have been a great victory for women's health has instead fallen off the proverbial wagon.

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." - Maureen Dowd