Speaking as somebody who's at a small, private, women's liberal arts college (albeit without a Greek system)...it was refreshing to finally see somebody make the point that while the militant feminists have a point, and while the sorority girls have a point -- sticking yourself on one side or the other goes a long way towards dehumanizing both parties.
And while colleges really do do this sort of thing (and so do high schools and middle schools, and I'm speaking as somebody who's both participated and facilitated), I can't think of any IRB form for that experiment that would pass the institutional IRB board -- and the professor did say that it was a study, which would require that form because it's human research.
Which doesn't mean I don't think certain aspects were implausible, or that some of the dialogue really needed work, or that trying to jam three storylines that disparate and intense into a single episode wasn't very wise.
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Date: Oct. 11th, 2006 04:25 pm (UTC)And while colleges really do do this sort of thing (and so do high schools and middle schools, and I'm speaking as somebody who's both participated and facilitated), I can't think of any IRB form for that experiment that would pass the institutional IRB board -- and the professor did say that it was a study, which would require that form because it's human research.
Which doesn't mean I don't think certain aspects were implausible, or that some of the dialogue really needed work, or that trying to jam three storylines that disparate and intense into a single episode wasn't very wise.