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Originally Posted by joepole
You said about 9,000 Freshmen move to Natchitoches each year, about half of whom were women. I was giving the actual numbers: about 1,471 people meet those criteria so nobody was utilizing incorrect figures to make decisions or form opinions.
The census numbers for Natchitoches don't include students from outside Natchitoches, so you have to add those to the total to figure percentages. And my population numbers were just for the people in the actual city limits. The Natchitoches MSA (which I believe includes students, but I could be wrong) is (as of 2004 census estimates) 38,741, meaning about 3.8% of the population meets your criteria of (incoming female Freshman) if you consider "Natchitoches" to mean the Natchitoches MSA instead of the actual city limits. If you just include the people inside the city limits (a number of about 25,000 once you include NSU students) it's about 5.8%.
You now seem to be talking about all female students affected by the law instead. Let's look at those actual numbers:
NSU has (as of Fall 2006) 3,375 total students age 20 or under. This includes the Scholar's College (which only has 108 students total of any age/sex), grad students (NSU only has 61 of those), and part-time non-degree-seeking students. I don't have the non-undergrads broken down by sex, but there's no reason to think it deviates much from the 68% female rate, especially since undergrads make up the bulk of the under-21 students. That would be 2,295 under-21 female students. That's ~9% of people inside the actual city limits (a population, including students, of around 25,000) or ~6% of "Natchitoches" as most people consider it.
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I understand you weren't arguing with me, Joe, and I'll admit the number of incoming freshman was considerably larger in my day than it is currently specifically because they have raised the qualification standards at NSU. I am also speaking specifically about people who live within the city limits of Natchitoches. It might not be anything for you to drive 10-20 miles to pick up a date in Shreveport/Bossier, but 10-20 miles puts you in another town in any direction you leave from Natchitoches...and let's not forget that people who have not lived in the same dwelling for a significant period of time aren't actually considered part of the population just like a student attending BPCC isn't counted in the Bossier population especially if he missed the census. Simply put, they aren't counting dorms rooms or post office boxes as permanent residences.
Once again, we are in near total agreement on the issue, but you're an ******* who tries to make a mountain out of every molehill you find and I'm an idiot for thinking a habitual criminal who regularly puts the life of his own children in danger would be any different. Not to mention you seem to have this overwhelming desire to separate graduating seniors, Graduate school students, Scholars college students, and High School student of or beyond the age of consent from your numbers, just like you wanted to omit the clarifications I made on the water topic.
It's was fun, but you're predictable and apparently not as smart as you pretend to be......