At North Dakota State, Women Are Few and Far Between

By ROBIN WILSON

Why does one university seem so behind the times?

Linda K. Langley has been a faculty member at North Dakota State University for just five years. It is her first academic job.

But while she is still several months away from making her final bid for tenure, she finds herself in the unlikely position of being the most senior woman in the psychology department. "I suddenly feel like I'm going to be the role model without having had one myself," she says, rattling off a list of the