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03/20/2006: "Babes at the LSE"

Whenever I return to my old university, it seems as if nothing has really changed. OK, they've done the place up and expanded a bit. But everything is still kind of in the same place.

Anyway, I was killing time between two top-level meetings in London today and popped into the Economist Bookshop and the LSE student shop. I found, to my astonishment, that amid the merchandise aimed at American alumni and over-eager undergraduates, there were girls' t-shirts emblazoned with the legend "lse babes". Lower case. lse babes. I was wondering what my alma mater had come to. In my day, any young lady sporting such an item would have been frogmarched off the campus by well-meaning feminists. Presumably this doesn't happen any more? I'm not sure whether this is a good or bad thing.