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From: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: Re: Prejudice in graduate school
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Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 17:48:23 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  3 17:48:23 1986
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Summary: 

In article <64@randvax.UUCP> karen@rand-unix.UUCP (Karen Isaacson) writes:

>Well, when I was in graduate school a couple of the guys decided I must be
>sleeping with the TA, my grades were so high!  (God forbid I might have
>been doing the homework & learning the material better than they...)
>And no one shouted them down when they spread the rumor, either.

It sounds like the creep factor (CF) among male graduate students may
be higher than I thought. :-)

In looking back at the various grad students I've known over the
years, I have to admit that I've known males whose presence in a
department raised the overall CF. Is it any wonder? You get your basic
creeps straight out of high school, pump them through four years of
specialized education (none of that commie pinko liberal arts stuff
for us, buddih!), then stick them straight into grad school where they
can spend all their time around other prejudiced and narrow-minded
hothouse flowers. There goes the CF straight through the ceiling. Now
think of all the creeps who get their phudds and go on to teach new
generations of creeps ... :-)

OK, I admit it: I overstated the case for the 'reasonable male.'

                            -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly