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Show WEDNESDAY, OCT03ER THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Sooners' Victory INDIA continued from page 3 Meant Only Might Classes Convened SARAH CAVANAH Oklahoma Daily When University of Oklahoma President David Boren announced Saturday that all classes would be canceled to celebrate the Sooners' win, many students assumed that meant they didn't have to go to class. But many students were both surprised and confused on Monday to find messages on their phones and email accounts telling them they were expected at their night classes. OU Provost Nancy Mergler said it is a general university policy when classes are canceled for a related reason, any class that meets after 4 p.m. or only meets once a week is still expected to convene for class. OU Press Secretary Jeff Hickman said Boren had intended the day to be treated as a snow day, meaning the rationale would not apply, and all OU students would be allowed out of class. If students had received messages or heard about the possibility of night classes still being held and called the provost's office, they were told classes would be held. But by Monday afternoon, several students enrolled in Monday night classes had not yet received any non-weath- er non-weath- er messages. Hickman said the President's Office expected some confusion from students and faculty over the miscomrnunication. "We hope that faculty will be lenient" with- students who didn't show up for class, Hickman said. - U WIRE , r , , , hm fw.ja.uij domain independently, he said. Instead, D'Souza said, the domains would have to be viewed collectively, and a new moral order encompassing equality would be established to function in the democratic society. According to D'Souza, India's cur- rent disorder, which resulted from the failure to establish this new moral order, has led to an unproductive society. "India has failed to convert its population into capital as best as it can," he said. Sharda said the caste system was created about 3,000 years ago to unite various Indian tribes. It is composed of four major classes: the Brahmins, a religious, educated class; the Ksha-triythe political or warrior class; the Vaishya, the economic class; and the Shudra, which was the common working class. a, 11. 2000 5 D'Souza said the caste system has a strength and a weakness. It is strong because it united ancient Indian tribal groups under one faith. But it has a weakness because it supports inequality and creates a hierarchical system that conflicts with equality and democracy, he said. D'Souza said the solution for political problems in India would require the new moral order to encompass values of equality. The lecture correlated with current social issues being discussed in classes of University of Utah social theory students. Professor Bam Dev Sharda felt the address was closely related to material on moral change being presented to his students, so those enrolled in the course attended D'Souza's lecture instead of a regular class session. Senior Dave Joos said he found the speech interesting. "I was interested in how different religions connected with the moral order, even though they had different beliefs," he said. Victor S. D'Souza described India's democratic revolution Tuesday. More Women Attend U.S. Colleges Than Men REMI BELLO Daily Texan In the last two decades, women have gradually wrestled away a societal privilege once held solely by their male counterparts: college attendance. At an annual meeting of the National Association for College Admission Counseling Friday, academic officials analyzed a nationwide trend resulting in more women attending U.S. universities than men. Although women's college enrollment is on the rise, officials attribute the dramatic trend to a drop in men's enrollment Aida Hurtado, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Santa Cruz and a conference attendee, blamed the increasing incarceration of minority men in particular nmt mm u s jam imi i for the enrollment drop. "Traditional male behavior such as hanging out on street corners has been criminalized," Hurtado said. "What has changed is how males are perceived in society." Nationally, less than 45 percent of undergraduates are men, down from about 57 percent in 1970. In 1997, the last year for which data is available, about 20 percent more women earned bachelor's degrees than men, according to a report by the Center for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education. Utah is the only state with more men than women attending college. "I'm really troubled by this," said Thomas G. Mortensen, one of the center's scholars, in a statement He added that the trend is partly due to male disengagement from family life, making unrownmnM u mi ihim mm n n i male students less concerned with earning enough money to support a family. "I don't have any answers," Mortensen said. Texas enrollment figures also reflect a female majority in college attendance. In fall 1999, the last year for which data is available, women constituted 54 percent of students attending four-yeuniversities, compared to men's 46 percent In the same year, 221,270 women were enrolled at Texas universities compared to 211,824 m I995 a jump. Since 1995, male enrollment has decreased by 3,000 students. While the University of Texas at Austin still has more men enrolled than women, they have been narrowing the gap over the last 10 years, draw ar "' ing almost equal In fall 1990, the University had 26,983 men and 22,634 women. In fall 1999, the University had 24,678 men and 24,331 women. UT officials could not be reached for comment. State Rep. Henry Cuellar, welcomed the increase in women's college attendance, but expressed concern over diminishing male enrollment numbers. "Historically, there has been a pressing effort to get females into college. But society as a whole cannot function properly if a sector of society men is decreasing in academic efficiency," said Cuellar, who is also of the state Committee on Higher Education. U WIRE vice-chairm- an . , . ' :i m I |