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Better Offer, Better Future 上海复旦附中自主招生英语试题 (2) Sarah Alexander celebrated the start of her last year at Wells College the way many other seniors before her have. She ran across the picturesque to the shores of Cayuga Lake, where she jumpedintothewater. So did many of her fellow seniors. But dozens of students decided to stay away, especially therelatively fewnewly arrivedmale students. WellsCollege,which since 1868had educated only women,began acceptingmen thisyear in hopes of bolstering its dwindling enrollment. For many students and alumnae, it was a crushing decision. After the college announced last October that it would go coeducational, about half of thestudentsprotested andtwo filed alawsuit,which they later dropped. The students—33 men and 383 women – campus late month Both sexes are now trying to navigate new social landscape.Mr.Phillips said “You can’t do guy stuff. Every time you want to sit and watch sports or a game, it turns into a movie.” The women were “some what nasty.” I could see the dirty looks in their eyes,” he said. “But I was not going to let that stop me from coming.” Wells was a place where women did not have to fuss over their appearance or fight to be taken seriously by their professors. They could enjoy the camaraderie of their campus sisters and their playful traditions.Besidesjumping into the lake, the women dance around the maypole each May andkissthe feet ofthestatueofMinerva,theRoman goddessofwisdom,beforeexams. Ms. Alexander said, “People told us we wouldn’t notice a difference, but from the moment men arrived on campus not could notice a difference. Waking up early to put on makeup, and that’sodd,” she said. Henry Wells, a founder of Wells Fargo and a friend of Cornell’s benefactor, Ezra Cornell established this college, when women were not considered capable of higher learning. “Gi