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August 1976: After 268 years of all-male Yale, women try to get past ‘grinds’

Yale Yesterday

Class of 1977
Published Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Yale women are so goddamned didactic. Why can’t we have some good, unmotivated graffiti around here for a change?

Glance at the graffiti in the women’s bathrooms around campus and you’d think all Yale women were sex-starved, men hating, lonely, desperate lesbians or worried about being pregnant.

But you can’t judge a college by its graffiti – and you can rarely generalize about Yale women. That’s probably why you’ll feel so comfortable around here.

There are as many ways to be a “woman at Yale” as there are subjects to major in. You’ll find women running around the...

#1 By (Anonymous) 6:49p.m. on January 23, 2008

A very timely piece in light of the Zeta Psi incident. I'd like to see a critique of this brave and honest piece from the apparatchiks of today's Women Center. Should it be condemned as exhibiting false consiousness?

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