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In the 1964-65 academic year...
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A MODERN COED
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the number of female students enrolled
in French universities reached 123,326
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Representing 43% of all university
students.
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Thirty years earlier, on the eve
of WWII
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there were only 21,136, less than
30% of the student body.
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Today, girls are choosing to pursue
higher education in soaring numbers,
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determined to catch up with the boys as
quickly as they can.
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Pursuing a higher education is now less
of an adventure for girls,
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less a change of pace, a pause,
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a unique interlude in their lives.
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The school girl is a budding coed,
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and the coed a grown-up school girl.
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The traditions of student life have nearly
died out,
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but remnants survive
like their eating habit,
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despite the combined assault of cafeterias
and other university food halls.
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In legends of the Latin Quarter of old
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the coed was a liberated woman rebelling
against her family and hometown
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to live on her own in
dingy Left Bank hotels,
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whose clientele is now limited to
itinerants and tourists.
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Today there are growing numbers of
universities in the provinces.
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In principle, the University of Paris is
reserved for Parisians.
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She's working.
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She has exams at the end of the month.
She studies day and night.
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- Chemistry?
- No, physiology.
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In general, coeds live with their parents,
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and if they live in the Latin Quarter
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it's only because they were born there.
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Fine.
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Fine with me, but when?
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Good-bye, dear.
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See you tonight.
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In the past, country girls came to the
city to study.
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Today it's the opposite:
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The city girl goes to school in the
country... or almost.
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The sciences deserted the age-old
home at the Sorbonne in 1958
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to create, at Orsay in the Chevreuse
Valley,
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a new campus designed to meet
modern educational needs.
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Among science majors, only a third
are girls,
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whereas in the humanities they
represent almost two-thirds.
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Their preferred branch, life science, is
increasingly popular today,
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taking the place of medicine and
pharmacy,
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which requires too many years of
study for too few jobs.
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Why do the lines look like
roller coasters?
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I don't know. Something isn't right.
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But the heart contractions are
very strong.
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Otherwise we'll have to start over.
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When the auricle is stimulated
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there should be both an a trial and
ventricular systole.
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- Okay, take it off.
- Take off the electrode?
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That didn't help.
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Let's start over.
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There are, of course breaks throughout
the day,
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but meals are quickly finished
and it's back to the books.
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The advantage of a campus like Orsay
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is that it offers everything students
need in one place,
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but even if it expanded, Orsay alone
couldn't meet the needs of the Paris area.
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Therefore, on a site where wine
warehouses once stood
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a new university of sciences is being
built for Paris.
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The leisure activities of coeds increasingly
resemble those of common mortals
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though they're much more infrequent.
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The Latin Quarter has lost all trace
of its original night life.
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The cabarets of the rue Champollion are
now art-house movie theaters.
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People used to say girls went to
college only to land a husband.
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Though today's coed might find a husband,
she isn't necessarily looking.
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And don't believe that marriage distracts
her from her studies
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even if she does allow her self time
for fun and relaxation.
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Knowledge of her responsibilities at
home and at school give her strength,
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and it's been noted that academic success
is greater among married couples
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than among singles.
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The primary role of women at one time
was to conserve the values of the past.
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Today, they are increasingly involved
in building the world of tomorrow.
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A new field of activity opens
before them:
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the laboratory.
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Here women can fill a new role for
which they are well-suited
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and which allows them to use their
talents to serve society.
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Here women are often assigned the
role of assistants,
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while men lead the research.
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But since 1906
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when Madame Curie became a
physics professor at the Sorbonne,
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there are more and more exceptions
to the rule.
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What surprises me about these results
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is that you have a very large growth
in this structure
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during the slow-wave sleep cycle
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and a small amplitude during
REM sleep.
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According to the theoretical projections,
you should have
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a small amplitude during the slow-wave
sleep cycle.
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Today, many coeds choose to devote
themselves entirely to their career,
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without relinquishing the demands
of their personal life.
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Daddy.
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Daddy.
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