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I'm proud to say that a Little Rock native -- a Central High grad, current senior at Wellesley College, contributor to the Arkansas Times -- has an article in the Boston Globe's Sunday magazine special on higher education. She's Eliza Borne, who writes about the benefits of attending a women's college and about the gap that still exists for women despite many gains. And she is, I expect, another bright daughter of Arkansas who'll decide opportunities are likely greater elsewhere than in Arkansas.

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"And she is, I expect, another bright daughter of Arkansas who'll decide opportunities are likely greater elsewhere than in Arkansas."

Oh, PERISH the very thought! What a SHATTERING loss this would be to our state!

"What a SHATTERING loss this would be to our state! "
Spot on it's a loss. In case you haven't noticed there is a dearth of educated individuals in this state. It shows in the sort of government we have, the sort of legislation we see, and the kind of arcane attitudes towards race, gender, and the environment we are burdened with. In great part Arkansas' best and brightest have been fleeing the state since reconstruction and it has suffered for it. Sophistication and intelligence have a way of perpetuating themselves in a community; as does ignorance.

Now that is an interesting concept, that someone would choose NOT to live in Arkansas, that someone would look around and decide to live in a in place with "better" attitudes toward government, legislation, race, gender and environment.

Makes me wonder what WE are doing here. Maybe the rest of us aren't that much different that some of the Katrina folks who lived in New Orleans because that was where they were living, and now they live in Houston, or Little Rock, or Shreveport because that's were they work up today.

The giant roulette wheel of live. It spins around 18 to 21 times, stops, and we get off and settle down.

Damn right shattering loss! Fortunately I can think of more than a few daughters of Arkansas with degrees from women's colleges who did return to the state and have made a better place to live: Judge Brantley for starters.
Students at women's colleges learn that women CAN do anything--period. Go Eliza!

"Now that is an interesting concept, that someone would choose NOT to live in Arkansas,"

Isn't it, though. And just as interesting is the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans choose NOT to live in New York or Connecticut or California or Massachusetts. Think about it.

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"Fortunately I can think of more than a few daughters of Arkansas with degrees from women's colleges who did return to the state and have made a better place to live:"

Damn right, historian. I can, too. Bully for them and bully for us. However, I don't think their motive in returning here was to do us a big favor and make the state "a better place to live." I think it might have been because they could make a better living here than anywhere else. Do you actually think Max and Ellen Brantley are here for altruistic reasons? Is that why you're living here, historian? And just so you know, most women I know didn't have to go to a women's college to learn that they "CAN do anything --period."

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