"In the 1964-65 academic year..." "A MODERN COED the number of female students enrolled in French universities reached 123,326" "Representing 43% of all university students." "Thirty years earlier, on the eve of wwii there were only 21,136, less than 30% of the student body." "Today, girls are choosing to pursue higher education in soaring numbers, determined to catch up with the boys as quickly as they can." "Pursuing a higher education is now less of an adventure for girls, less a change of pace, a pause, a unique interlude in their lives." "The school girl is a budding coed, and the coed a grown-up school girl." "The traditions of student life have nearly died out, but remnants survive like their eating habit, despite the combined assault of cafeterias and other university food halls." "In legends of the Latin Quarter of old the coed was a liberated woman rebelling against her family and hometown to live on her own in dingy Left Bank hotels, whose clientele is now limited to itinerants and tourists." "Today there are growing numbers of universities in the provinces." "In principle, the University of Paris is reserved for Parisians." "She's working." "She has exams at the end of the month." "She studies day and night." " Chemistry?" " No, physiology." "In general, coeds live with their parents, and if they live in the Latin Quarter it's only because they were born there." "Fine." "Fine with me, but when?" "Good-bye, dear." "See you tonight." "In the past, country girls came to the city to study." "Today it's the opposite:" "The city girl goes to school in the country... or almost." "The sciences deserted the age-old home at the Sorbonne in 1958 to create, at Orsay in the Chevreuse Valley, a new campus designed to meet modern educational needs." "Among science majors, only a third are girls, whereas in the humanities they represent almost two-thirds." "Their preferred branch, life science, is increasingly popular today, taking the place of medicine and pharmacy, which requires too many years of study for too few jobs." "Why do the lines look like roller coasters?" "I don't know." "Something isn't right." "But the heart contractions are very strong." "Otherwise we'll have to start over." "When the auricle is stimulated there should be both an a trial and ventricular systole." " Okay, take it off." " Take off the electrode?" "That didn't help." "Let's start over." "There are, of course breaks throughout the day, but meals are quickly finished and it's back to the books." "The advantage of a campus like Orsay is that it offers everything students need in one place," "but even if it expanded, Orsay alone couldn't meet the needs of the Paris area." "Therefore, on a site where wine warehouses once stood a new university of sciences is being built for Paris." "The leisure activities of coeds increasingly resemble those of common mortals though they're much more infrequent." "The Latin Quarter has lost all trace of its original night life." "The cabarets of the rue Champollron are now art-house movie theaters." "People used to say girls went to college only to land a husband." "Though today's coed might find a husband, she isn't necessarily looking." "And don't believe that marriage distracts her from her studies even if she does allow her self time for fun and relaxation." "Knowledge of her responsibilities at home and at school give her strength, and it's been noted that academic success is greater among married couples than among singles." "The primary role of women at one time was to conserve the values of the past." "Today, they are increasingly involved in building the world of tomorrow." "A new field of activity opens before them:" "the laboratory." "Here women can fill a new role for which they are well-suited and which allows them to use their talents to serve society." "Here women are often assigned the role of assistants, while men lead the research." "But since 1906 when Madame Curie became a physics professor at the Sorbonne, there are more and more exceptions to the rule." "What surprises me about these results is that you have a very large growth in this structure during the slow-wave sleep cycle and a small amplitude during REM sleep." "According to the theoretical projections, you should have a small amplitude during the slow-wave sleep cycle." "Today, many coeds choose to devote themselves entirely to their career, without relinquishing the demands of their personal life." "Daddy." "Daddy."