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Tulane spokesperson Mike Strecker on Monday reiterated that Tulane doesn't lower its standards for men.

  Tulane spokesperson Mike Strecker on Monday reiterated that Tulane doesn't lower its standards for men. "We simply do not have lower admission or academic standards for our male applicants," Strecker said in a prepared statement. "Both our admission and enrollment profiles reflect that." According to The New York Times Magazine, the current gender ratio at Tulane has led to complaints among some students about a challenging dating scene and leniency toward male students in classes and admissions.  While one higher-education consultant told the magazine that Tulane has not actively been trying to shift its gender ratio, some female students said they felt like their male counterparts weren't held to the same academic standards.
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Long Island flower farmers serve a premium niche with colorful blooms

Long Island flower farmers serve a premium niche with colorful blooms Flower farms once dotted Long Island like freckles . Local growers produced roses in glass greenhouses and populated acres with mums for cutting, the vase-bound flowers a major commodity in the region.   "That's completely vanished," said Krystyna Read, president of the Long Island Flower Growers Association, of the industry fallen victim to high production costs and rapid shipping of cheaper imports, primarily from year-round growers in South America. "Some people are growing some boutique roses, but there's not the mass production like there used to be on Long Island for roses and cut-flower mums."  Instead, most large horticulture operations on the Island now produce bedding plants, perennials and shrubs, leaving the cut-flower business to a growing number of small farmers who are passionate about producing specialty blooms...
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