[dlokshin]

One response is to get offended. Another response is to realize that college is as much a social exercise as it is an academic one. Men expect there to be women on campus, women expect there to be men on campus (even at an all women's college, as I found out by dating one at Wellesley).

Ultimately students are customers of a service. The service that universities provide is part academic, part social.

[belorn]

Yes. The point I tried to surreptitiously make was to hint that while campus is known as the place where people find their life partners, the bluntness of how we express it differ when talking about men and when talking about women.

The way to go forward in a equality way, might be to bring the language we use for women to men, or bring both to a more middle point. The "It’s not the College of Mary and Mary; it’s the College of William and Mary." might have been a bit over the top in my taste, but everything else in a perfect world should have no emotional difference if it's women meet man, or man meet woman.