Walter Kirn has an amusing essay in the New Republic. He tells Susan Patton, the mom who told the Princeton girls to grab those Princeton guys quickly, that she shouldn't show her cards.
Almost as grateful, I wager, are the young fellows who read her letter in their college paper and suddenly ballooned in self-esteem as they realized just how much extra leverage they could exert in the campus dating scene. The Princeton Man is an opportunist, see, which is why he got into Princeton in the first place, why Mrs. Patton deems him a hot property, and why (bad news, you pretty, scheming sophomores in your fetching lacrosse shorts and black cardigans) he won’t be cornered. He won’t sell himself short. And herein lies Mrs. Patton’s great mistake, which I’ve waited for weeks now for someone to point out but knew, as a Princeton Man, that no one would, leaving to me the job of stating the obvious: You should have kept your investment letter private. If it’s women’s interests you truly wished to serve, you should have addressed them discreetly, girl to girl, not on the floor of the Ivy League Stock Exchange, which—don’t you know this?—still belongs to guys.
In short, men are pigs.
Apt. 11d 
“If it’s women’s interests you truly wished to serve, you should have addressed them discreetly, girl to girl, not on the floor of the Ivy League Stock Exchange, which—don’t you know this?—still belongs to guys.”
Isn’t the scuttlebutt about Patton that she has two *sons* at Princeton, and, in fact, her letter was designed exactly to serve the boys. One version of the chatter I heard is the proposal the letter is basically a mother’s lament that her sons aren’t being treated as nicely as they should be!
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