October 20, 2000

At Meeting of College-Admission Counselors, Talk Turns to Dwindling Male Enrollments

Affirmative action for men?

Harry Dawe, assistant director of admissions at Oberlin College, calls it the "issue that dare not speak its name."

Yet, at the annual meeting of the National Association for College Admission Counseling, preferential treatment for male college applicants -- a notion that would have been considered absurd just a few years ago -- found a surprisingly loud and mostly unchallenged voice.

The reason, according to speakers

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