I felt compelled to comment about this Boston Globe article that was called to my attention regarding the lone male attending Wellesley College. When I started at Wellesley in 1987 we had three “coeds” in our dorm. Yup, we called the male exchange students “coeds”. They were in my dorm, I presumed, because on my housing form I checked off that I would not mind living in the same dorm as males. I figured I grew up in a house with three males, it really wouldn’t be a big deal. And it wasn’t. This guy now at Wellesley is lucky, apparently he gets his very own bathroom (!!??). We shared bathrooms, and, suffice to say, there are plenty of other occasions, best not discussed with the students’ parents, when men were using our bathrooms so that also was not a big deal. Also, there were male MIT students attending classes through the cross-registration program, so the student population wasn’t limited to the coeds. It’s sad to me that the exchange program seems to have dwindled in popularity with men, as this student is the first in a few years. It’s a unique opportunity to attend an excellent college.