There's an article in today's Washington Post that reports that the clear majority of college graduates are women. The article quotes one the usual anti-feminist suspects, Christina Hoff Sommers, on why this is a horrible thing. I'm not going to argue about that (at the moment). What do I want to talk about is what Instapundit, King of the Bloggers (in real life law professor Glenn Reynolds) says:

SEX DISCRIMINATION IN COLLEGE: 57 percent of degrees are going to women. There's a lot of hand-wringing about why, but they miss the obvious: over the past 20 years there has been a concerted effort to make colleges male-unfriendly environments, with attacks on fraternities, with anti-male attitudes in many classes, with intrusive sexual-harassment rules that start with the assumption that men are evil predators, and so forth. Now men don't find college as congenial a place. It's a hostile environment, quite literally.

How come none of the experts quoted in this article has noticed that?

I've actually been in college for an embarrassingly large part of the last twenty years -- four years as an undergrad at UVa, three years in law school at Georgetown, and five years as a grad student in the theatre department at the University of Maryland-- so I've seen a lot of the changes that Reynolds talks about. He's making a fundamental mistake -- he's equating all males with some stereotypical college man. Many of the changes that he decries are not anti-male as much as they are anti-asshole. I think that the anti-drinking crusade on college campuses is stupid, but cracking down on fraternities that discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation and income is a good thing. The social and political dominance of fraternities at UVa in the mid 80's was intimidating and alienating to those of us who weren't Greeks.
Similarly, while I am sure there are excesses, campaigns against sexual harassment, date rape, and other forms of male-on-female creepery are not anti-male. They are anti-males-who-abuse-women. I like to think I'm not that kind of guy.
Making college campuses friendlier for women makes them friendlier for lots of men. I'm sure that gay students have benefited from the transformation of college campuses. Colleges certainly aren't perfect. Students seem to think that professors are there to give them good grades and spoonfeed them information relevant only to the final exam and/or getting a job. But I'd much rather be an undergraduate now than 15 years ago. I'm sure that women and minorities mostly feel the same way. If that's a problem for (other) straight white men, tough.