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From: daver@felix.UUCP (Dave Richards)
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Subject: Re: Re: career vs. relationships
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Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 14:22:20 EST
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In article <142@rtech.UUCP> linda@rtech.UUCP (Linda Mundy) writes:
>
>When I was an undergraduate (CS) at Berkeley, there was a flap over hiring a
>woman professor in mathematics.  They decided against her, ostensibly because
>she could not speak English well enough (forgive me, the details are hazy, it
>was, uh, quite a few years ago -- I think she was Eastern European or Russian).
>Anyway, I remember being somewhat incensed at that line of reasoning, as I had
>just suffered through a math class given by a tenured professor who spoke such
>broken English it was painful.  But that hadn't stopped them hiring HIM.
>-- 
>Linda Mundy	{ucbvax,decvax}!mtxinu!rtech!linda

An optimist might say that the reason they didn't hire her was because they 
learned their lesson about professors who can't speak from the very guy you
mention having as a math professor.  Maybe they sort of got stuck with him,
not realizing there was a problem until he had been there a long time.
Now if there were already several professors there with this problem, then 
this excuse gets weaker.

Anyway, it's still better than saying they didn't hire her because she
didn't know how to make coffee, or she wouldn't put out for the dean.

Dave "not a flame" Richards