Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!genrad!grkermi!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-edu1!rafferty From: rafferty@cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Just wondering... Message-ID: <352@cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA> Date: Sun, 9-Jun-85 00:32:06 EDT Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-e.352 Posted: Sun Jun 9 00:32:06 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Jun-85 04:02:29 EDT Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 19 How many of you minorities <1> out there would feel good if you found out that you were hired for your job <2> simply because you were the best qualified within your minority? Just wondering. ---- <1> by minorities, I mean women, blacks, Eskimoes, or any other oppressed group <2> or accepted to your school, as the case may be. ________ Colin Rafferty { Math Department, Carnegie-Mellon University } "According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention, there is an order. In truth, there are atoms and a void." -Democritus(400 B.C.)