Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!cuccia From: cuccia@ucbvax.ARPA (Nick Cuccia) Newsgroups: net.college,net.cse Subject: Re: segregating male and female Message-ID: <4175@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 01:11:26 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.4175 Posted: Mon Jan 14 01:11:26 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 00:25:14 EST References: <241@mss.UUCP> <439@gitpyr.UUCP> <3918@ucbvax.ARPA> <445@gitpyr.UUCP> <617@utcsrgv.UUCP> <114@topaz.ARPA> <778@gloria.UUCP> Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 23 Xref: watmath net.college:633 net.cse:313 > ["The Marines are looking for a few good men. But so are the women."] > > > Come on now. As far as I have seen so far, the women in most CSE classes > > that I have either taught or given have been more enthusiastic then the men. > > There is a large problem (that I used to run into in math classes) that the > > teachers will ignore the women, giving more of their attention to the men, > > and thus finally discouraging the women. > > Another observation: women students have asked me to assign them to all- > woman programming teams - to forestall "enthusiasms" of the wrong sort. > -- > Col. G. L. Sicherman After muddling through the upper-division data structures class here at Cal, I found many of the women to be very enthusiastic about the material. This was interesting, since the instructor seemed to be doing his best to dampen _everybody's_ enthusiasm. His treatment of the women in the class bordered on being obscene. He seemed to feel that they simply didn't belong in the class/major/school. --Nick Cuccia --ucbvax!cuccia --cuccia%ucbmiro@Berkeley