Pets Welcome in Colleges, US and Taiwan

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(1) Jacques Steinberg, Colleges Extend the Welcome Mat to Students’ Pets.
New York Times, June 6, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/education/06pets.html?scp=3&sq=pet%20college&st=cse

Note:
(a) taffy (n): "a boiled candy usually of molasses or brown sugar that is
pulled until porous and light-colored"
(b) helicopter parent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_parent
("Mother hovers over me like a helicopter...")
(c) The "Facts & Figures" page of college web site (www.stephens.edustates)
states, "Stephens College, founded in 1833 [at Columbia, Missouri], is the
second-oldest women's college in the country."
(d) Timeline of women's colleges in the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_women%27s_colleges_in_the_United_States

Quote:

"1772: Little Girls' School, (now Salem College [at Winston-Salem, North
Carolina]): Originally established as a primary school, it later became an
academy (high school) and finally a college. It is the oldest female
educational establishment that is still a women's college

"1833: Columbia Female Academy (now Stephens College): Originally
established as an academy (high school), it later became a college. It is
the second oldest female educational establishment that is still a women's
college.


(2) Taiwan university to allow students to bring pets to class. DPA, May 22,
2010.
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1557728.php/Taiwan-university-to-allow-students-to-bring-pets-to-class

Note:
(a) DPA is an official news agency of Germany.
(b) Hsuan Chuang University 玄奘大學
http://www.hcu.edu.tw
("本校是由佛教界集資興建的高等教育學府，於民國八十六年 [1997] 三月二十五日奉
教育部台（86）高(三) 字第八六０二九三九二號函核准成立")

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