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Alex Williams, The New Math on Campus; When Women Outnumber Men at a College
, Dating Culture Is Skewed. New York Times, Feb. 7, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/fashion/07campus.html?scp=1&sq=%22north%20carolina%22%20alex&st=cse

Excerpt in the window of the print: At most female schools, dating rituals
are on men's terms.

My comment:
(1) While you are there (reading the report), do not forget to view the "
slide show."
(2) I am unsure if men in an American college are in such demand. My alma
mater, University of Illinois, has graduate and professional schools. If
true, it will be interesting to conduct research to see if there is trickle-
down effects, such as foreign male students getting lucky or foreign female
students feeling keener competition from native-born fellow students.
(3) All my life--including college years--I have lived in major cities of
Taiwan and United States. College students in that setup can always date non
-students and many do. I also visited University of Vermont and stayed there
a month. Despite being the largest city of Vermont--the 2000 census
recorded population of the city and the state as about 38,000 and 600,000,
respectively--I could see there was no place to meet other young people but
college students (and unlike Boston, Burlington has just one university).


------------Separately
(1) Mary Helen Specht, Modern Love: HOw Could I Embrace a Village? This Was
Not a Simple Love Affair Between Two People. New York Times, Feb. 7, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/fashion/07love.html?scp=1&sq=Mary%20Helen%20Specht&st=cse

My comment:
(a) A glance at the illustration (which appears in the print and online)
that accompanies the article, you have an idea that it is about interracial.
(b) The author has her own web site
http://maryhelenspecht.com/
, whose "Bio" page alludes to her Nigeria experience.

(2) Jennifer 8. Lee, Vows: Lorene Yue and Wai Gen Yee New York Times, Feb. 7
, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/fashion/weddings/07vows.html?scp=1&sq=vows%20yue&st=cse

My comment: Yes, "8." is the reporter's middle name, in a sense similar to
ex-President Harry S. Truman, whose ENTIRE middle name is "S."

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