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If you were a University of Maine student 20 years ago and had doubtful taste in music, you could put on a Donovan record, hear the lyrics "For every boy there is a girl," and know it to be treacly true.
The next line in "Boy For Every Girl" goes "For every dream there is a real world," which is about where we find ourselves today. A recent university system census comparing the early '80s with today finds where once the sexes were about equally represented on Maine campuses, the 11,953 fulltime female students now outnumber males by more than 3,000. It is a phenomenon evident nationally (133 women will graduate from U.S. colleges this year for every 100 men) and internationally, has been lamented at length and then stacked alongside global warming and the federal debt on the Big Problems to- do shelf.See the full content of this document
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Where the Boys Aren't
This is bad news, and not just because it upsets the estrogen-to- testosterone balance at the Friday night sock hop. It's bad in a Tom Friedman-esque way, of Maine being part of a global economy, behind its neighbor...
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