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BARNARD COLLEGE IN New York has decided to admit transgender women, becoming the latest women’s college to issue a new policy acknowledging the complexity of gender.
The policys says Barnard will consider applicants “who consistently live and identify as women”.
That excludes transgender men, or applicants born female but identifying as male.
The decision is an attempt to balance Barnard’s identity as a women’s college with what the school calls “recognition of our changing world and an evolving understanding of gender identity”.
Though it won’t consider transgender men for admission, the school announced that the decision wouldn’t impact students who transition while already enrolled.
The decision makes Barnard the latest prominent women’s college — and last of the traditional Seven Sisters schools — to update its admissions policy.
In the last nine months or so, each institution has come up with a slightly different formula.
Barnard’s president, Debora Spar, led a monthslong exploration of the issue with her community, including five town halls (and one virtual town hall) for students, faculty or alumni, and an online survey that drew more than 900 responses.
“As expected, a wide range of passionate and deeply held beliefs were discussed and debated,” Spar and board of trustees chairman Jolyne Caruso-FitzGerald wrote in a joint letter Thursday, following the board vote a day earlier.
But on two main points, the responses were compelling and clear. There was no question that Barnard must reaffirm its mission as a college for women. And there was little debate that trans women should be eligible for admission to Barnard.
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Why would airlines operate flights at a loss and the airports get state aid? Surely the incentive should be to the airlines too?
@Peter O Donnell: You’d think that logically. If the airlines had an incentive to fly then the airports wouldn’t need funding…. More logical decision making made here by Eamonn Ryan. Better than nothing I guess though.
@Peter O Donnell: Simple. Planes lose more money not flying than flying….
What pandemic.? Surely a pandemic suggests a massive rise in mortality rates.? So far in 2020 the monthly mortality rates compared to the same month of the 5 previous years, with the exception of April when our government threw the elderly to the wolves is lower.
@John Brendan Mullen: boring!
@John Brendan Mullen: thanks doctor.
@John Brendan Mullen: oh and check the news before you post. Italy records its highest daily deaths since April.
@Wreck Tangle: you define pandemic for us all please. I’m curious about your definition.
@Paul Furey: as opposed to what .? Summer months always have lower mortality rates than winter.
@Paul Furey: ye don’t have to be a doctor to know that “pandemic” is accompanied by a massive spike in mortality rates. That’s not the case in 2020. Ireland actually has lower monthly mortality rates compared to the same month of the previous 5 years. Panicdemic more like
@Paul Furey: duh.
@Wreck Tangle: yeah, you wouldn’t want anything as boring as the truth get in the way of a good story.
@John Brendan Mullen: “A pandemic (from Greek πᾶν, pan, “all” and δῆμος, demos, “people”) is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of people. ” (…..hint….worldwide….)
@John Brendan Mullen: the lockdown worked and sheltered people like yourself from reality.
@John Brendan Mullen:
Why are the comments closed on the Healy Rea/deleany story. Surely can’t be for legal reasons
@ChuckE: you know why!!! Just think how many comments they would have to delete.
They would be better off building housing and looking after people with that money were is all the profit airlines have made over the years
@Pauline Cahill: you’re ok with the airlines folding, reducing in size and jobs being lost?
@Pauline Cahill: where are all the profits that pubs and other businesses have made over the years gone? The exact same place as airlines profits due to govt restrictions.
@Pauline Cahill: shareholders dividends
Wonder what Shannon will get as they have been ran into the ground by all governments..
Pity as with The present one and the Greens the traffic and the congestion etc to use Dublin is a bug of mine let alone the cost of Aviation Fuel to fly over Shannon personally does not make sense forgetting the passengers are from the whole country not just Dublin ..
@Sportmad: Airlines determine the routes they fly based on where the market is and where they can make money. Shannon cost Aer Lingus a fortune with their Boeing 707s and 747s from the 60s to the 80s. The fleet had double the amount of take off and landing cycles as their peers and with a full base due to the enforced Shannon Stopover. Madness! And who remembers being stuck in Shannon Airport at 4am for 90 mins while trying to get back to Dublin from the US. Having said all of this what could the government do for Shannon that would not cost the state a fortune and would benefit the country.
@Paul Furey: fair points but the fact remains that Dublin and Cork has been given a big advantage by Government in the funding it receives and as all are owned by the Government why is there a seperate Authority for Shannon..
Dublin and cork nearly 1bn in revenue 2019 and with snn just 24 m
There is a massive disparity in that
counties outside the pale and rebel county a fair share and then see
We have to travel to and from Dublin from west and its much easier now not 4hrs but yes 2hrs have you ever stayed outside dublin or used tge region’s airports doubt it.. but yet we must go to Dublin i have used ever Airport in this country and region ones best..
Dublin is a nightmare
Give the cash to not just snn but kerry and Galway the others are ok with those profits others not..
Rant over
What about all the profits and grants the DAA received over the years. What about DAA staff who took pay cuts? The media should look into ERIC and see how the DAA broke it’s promise to staff regarding it.
Chicken feed to be fair.
If I had a choice support our airports or the media I would back our airport’s
So about the same price as a prawn sandwich and a Coke.
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