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Tan & Cardinal
news
thursday, march 31, 2011
spring break contest
vol. 92, issue 21
Thanks to all who submitted!
www.otterbein360.com
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The T&C hopes everyone enjoyed break and wishes all students a good spring quarter 1,906 Females
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1,103 Males
Graphic by KriSten Sapp
thinKinG Gap:
The most recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics showed that out of all undergraduate students at Otterbein University, there were 803 more women than men enrolled.
Degree gap between men and women smaller, census shows
In conjunction with www.otterbein360.com, the Tan & Cardinal held a spring break photo contest that began Wednesday, March 16, and ended Monday, March 28, at midnight. Participants were to strike their best poses with a copy of the T&C wherever they went on vacation and post those photos to the Otterbein360 Facebook fan page wall. The person who submitted the coolest photo landed on the cover of the T&C this week. Our spring break photo contest winner is junior nursing major Dana McDermott. She took a copy of the Tan & Cardinal with her while she was rock climbing in Foster Falls, Tenn., for spring break. Thanks for submitting your photo, Dana. Check out some of our other great submissions from students whose vacations spanned two continents.
photo provided by devin FraZe
SWinG batter:
From left to right: Junior math education major Devin Fraze, sophomore music major Matt Hogue and sophomore actuarial science major Chris Dunphy of the Otterbein Swing Dance Club catch up on some reading outside historical Fenway Park, home of the Red Sox, while in Boston over spring break.
Females are more likely to have bachelor’s degrees by age 23 BY LAINA THOMPSON Contributing Writer
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics released findings which reported that women are 1.6 times more likely than men to graduate with a bachelor’s degree by the time they are 23. “Women are underestimated,” freshman middle childhood education major Lindsay Loshbough said. “They have a lot of potential.” The BLS statistics stem from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, which began first round surveys of respondants in 1997 and finished their twelfth round in 2009. The data showed that 23 percent of the female respondants and only 14 percent of male respondants had earned a bachelor’s degree by the age of 23. “I guess we will have less (men) to choose from at some point,” said senior health education major Sheronda Whitner.
“Maybe colleges need to do more to attract guys.” The newest U.S. census data reflected the same trend. According to the 2010 census, of women 25 years and older, 29 percent earned at least a bachelor’s degree by 2009, compared to 30 percent of men. This gap is much smaller than that of 1999 when the numbers were 23 percent for women and 28 percent for men. In a more specific age range, the survey showed that among women and men 25-29 years old, 35 percent of women held a bachelor’s degree while only 27 percent of men did. “I think it helps to break the stereotype of male dominance,” sophomore early childhood education major Kelly Dunham said. Kate Carey, associate dean for graduate and continuing studies at Otterbein said, “The students are predominantly female in adult undergraduate enrollment.”
In the fall of 2009, there were over 3,000 students in the undergraduate program at Otterbein. Of those students, 1,906 were female and 1,103 were male, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. These statistics also showed that in the past six years, 52 percent of men enrolled at Otterbein finished their bachelor’s degree program on time, while 67 percent of women completed theirs. However, out of about 523 adult students in Otterbein’s continuing studies program, 66 percent are men and 34 percent are female, according to Carey. Meg Barkhymer, director of Otterbein’s Center for Career Planning said that the center also sees more women seek its services. “We can guess pretty accurately that for every male we see, we see between two-three women,” Barkhymer said. t&c
dance the niGht aWay:
photo provided by devin FraZe
The Otterbein Swing Dance Club does some major multitasking while in Boston for the Boston Tea Party dance revolution. The four-day event is a conference for dancers that has workshops and competitions. In 2010, more than 1,400 people attended and cash prizes were given away to winners of each of the competitions.
JUpiter JUmp:
photo provided by tony deGenaro
Junior English literary studies and creative writing major Tony DeGenaro said he was already in Lebanon when he found out about our contest, but we still appreciate this picture of his leap off of the pillars of the statue of Jupiter, the largest and most complete Roman ruins in the world.