I'm going to submit this to public discussion, because I'm really curious if I'm being over-sensitive. I get a daily clippings email of UGA news. It's just a quick summary of stories about UGA or with quotes from people from UGA from newspapers all over the country. There are several people who do the summary. One of them consistently uses the word "co-ed" to describe females university students. This has always kind of irked me. The word strikes me as archaic, a vestige of the days when women were rare at a place like UGA. Now the university is 65% female and there are many prominent professors who are women. It seems to me that most of the time the gender of the student is not important, but, if it is, the phrases "male student" and "female student" do nicely. I left it alone until Friday, when he referred to a woman who had been raped as a "co-ed". That struck me as belittling, derogatory, tactless, etc. So I sent him an email, saying what I just said. He wrote back to me this morning, saying he meant nothing by his use of the word, that it was just shorter, and that a newspaper editor would have changed "female student" to "co-ed" anyway. Anybody have any thoughts?
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09:26:41 AM,
Monday 7 October 2002
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Remi and I were both up and dressed early enough today to go out for breakfast. It was a lot of fun, and not something we ordinarily are able to do.
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09:18:39 AM,
Monday 7 October 2002
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I think I kind of like Firefly.
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09:59:02 PM,
Friday 4 October 2002
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This metafilter thread makes me madder than any in a really long time. 2
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01:51:32 PM,
Friday 4 October 2002
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My money's on a filibuster by Byrd. A
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09:37:58 AM,
Friday 4 October 2002
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Take that Dr. "If-you-haven't-had-a-general-ecology-class-you-should-come-talk-to-me-about-supplemental-readings-and-whether-you-should-be-in-this-class-at-all"
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09:15:51 AM,
Friday 4 October 2002
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I'm in the computer lab in biosci, where I pretty much never go. They have a whole fleet of these things called emacs. Like an imac, but not as cool, apparently.
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09:08:41 AM,
Thursday 3 October 2002
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I am really trying to do work, but this fish made me laugh a lot.
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12:37:12 PM,
Wednesday 2 October 2002
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Wow. I just attempted to login to arches with my former whorfin login. That's very sad.
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09:58:37 AM,
Wednesday 2 October 2002
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The woman who sits next to me in the choral society showed me this article last night. It's about her mother, Leila Denmark, who at 104 is the country's oldest pediatrician. She retired last year. It's a pretty impressive story.
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09:45:40 AM,
Wednesday 2 October 2002
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There are some business students in my statistics class. They were talking about a guy they know working on his PhD in math and how he's so smart and could make so much more money if he transferred to the business school. I don't have a clue what I should have said to these people, whose worldview is so completely different from mine.
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12:15:40 PM,
Tuesday 1 October 2002
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Continuing the saga of weirdness in the mac lab...it happened again, only this time the imac played "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
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11:26:44 AM,
Tuesday 1 October 2002
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Judy asked me to do something that was too much for me to do and I should have said so but I didn't and now that something is due at 5 and it's not going to get done because it was too much for me to do.
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03:38:17 PM,
Monday 30 September 2002
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A few months ago they proclaimed that we would get our paystubs through PDF instead of campus mail. The PDF's for some unknown reason have the name and address written backwards. Not mirror letters, mind you, just regular letters written from right to left. So I am
HTUDDUS DRALLAB HTEBAZILE
NUR LLIM ENOTS 001
08 TPA
50603 AG SNEHTA
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09:59:47 AM,
Monday 30 September 2002
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Slept for 12 hours. Catching up on blogs from when I was in Santa Barbara. Gonna play soccer this afternoon unless it's absolutely pouring.
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10:41:03 AM,
Sunday 29 September 2002
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Now don't I feel silly. Remember my lovely rant about the person I saw on campus wearing a North Meck Soccer shirt? Well, her picture was in the Red & Black today, in a story about how good the soccer recruits are this year. She's freshman forward Erin Sekerak from Davidson. Pretty crazy.
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09:23:10 AM,
Friday 27 September 2002
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Check out our hot sexy working group picture and yes, we really did go to Restoration Hardware to take it.
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10:50:26 AM,
Thursday 26 September 2002
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So now I'm home and sleepy and I just took a stats test and I've got a popecoc test tomorrow.
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10:48:26 AM,
Thursday 26 September 2002
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So, Santa Barbara rocks. Our hotel is on the beach and then it's a straight shot up the main drag, State Street, to NCEAS (The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis) located in the heart of downtown above the Banana Republic. State Street seems to go on forever, a series of two and three story stucco buildings with red tile, with every kind of store imaginable, many of them repeated every few blocks, and thousands of good restaurants. We have been working preposterously hard, but I've had time for a couple of good walks on the beach. I even saw a seal, which isn't that common here. Otherwise, we talk about stream restoration all day, at dinner, and in the hot tub. But it's interesting and, hopefully, eventually, productive.
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10:54:35 AM,
Tuesday 24 September 2002
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The weather sure looks nice in Santa Barbara.
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06:10:03 PM,
Thursday 19 September 2002
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Brandon Carroll (who I admit I still think of as my friend Heather's little brother) from Davidson has a design for the WTC memorial on the CNN.com webpage. Brandon's design is #9 on this page. It's pretty cool.
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05:10:24 PM,
Thursday 19 September 2002
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Bush says that Iraq's offer to unconditionally readmit the weapons inspectors is nothing but a "tactical ploy to avoid accountability." And he should know, because his cronies are masters of that particular art form.
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07:59:57 PM,
Wednesday 18 September 2002
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I'm Martin, Cassie, Remi.
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09:59:19 PM,
Saturday 14 September 2002
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Tropical Storm Hanna has prevented my field work. If we weren't 12 inches of rain short for the year, I would complain. As it is, let it rain!
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10:00:19 AM,
Saturday 14 September 2002
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So, the Greens really are self-loathing. Their possible choice of a presidential or vp nominee is Cynthia McKinney, recently defeated in the Democratic primary for her House seat. Yes, she has progressive views on many issues, but she's also a pretty public anti-Semite. If they ever want to be taken seriously, the Greens must do better than that.
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10:26:37 AM,
Thursday 12 September 2002
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Statistics lab is truly a great thing. The programs take a few minutes to type in, but meanwhile, as the TA reads them aloud, there's plenty of time for web surfing.
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10:07:41 AM,
Thursday 12 September 2002
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Happy Birthday, Becca!
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09:44:51 AM,
Thursday 12 September 2002
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God bless the peoples of all nations.
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08:28:03 AM,
Wednesday 11 September 2002
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Listening to people whine about homework in my statistics class reminds me of what Mr. Madre, my high school math teacher, used to say: "You've just got to say to yourself, I'm going to solve this problem even if it takes me five whole minutes."
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02:07:09 PM,
Tuesday 10 September 2002
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Using music to find programming bugs. I say once again, science is cool.
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04:54:23 PM,
Monday 9 September 2002
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Just a little something to think about, courtesy of the AP
"Overview of Changes to Legal Rights
By The Associated Press
Some of the fundamental changes to Americans' legal rights by the Bush
administration and the USA Patriot Act following the terror attacks:
* FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION: Government may monitor religious and political institutions without suspecting criminal activity to assist terror investigation.
* FREEDOM OF INFORMATION: Government has closed once-public immigration hearings, has secretly detained hundreds of people without charges, and has encouraged bureaucrats to resist public records requests.
* FREEDOM OF SPEECH: Government may prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they tell anyone that the government subpoenaed information related to a terror investigation.
* RIGHT TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION: Government may monitor federal prison jailhouse conversations between attorneys and clients, and deny lawyers to Americans accused of crimes.
* FREEDOM FROM UNREASONABLE SEARCHES: Government may search and seize Americans' papers and effects without probable cause to assist terror investigation.
* RIGHT TO A SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL: Government may jail Americans indefinitely without a trial.
* RIGHT TO LIBERTY: Americans may be jailed without being charged or being able to confront witnesses against them. "
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10:20:11 AM,
Monday 9 September 2002
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A boy in Georgia died recently due to infection by Naegleria fowleri. Just another one of those terrifying things you've never heard of. It moves through the nasal passages into the brain. Advice from the experts: blow your nose forcefully after swimming.
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01:58:34 PM,
Thursday 5 September 2002
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I read a really cool paper last night that used a neural net to model an entire stream system. There is an
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10:01:23 AM,
Wednesday 4 September 2002
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The man whom Mr. W has chosen to be his forest fire czar doesn't believe in ecosystems. Just thought my flabbergastedness should be shared.
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11:24:05 AM,
Tuesday 3 September 2002
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My mom told me about some other things that Aunt Dot did. She was Miss Monitor, the weekend voice of weather for NBC radio (you should definitely click the audio link). She reprised that role on The Tonight Show with Jack Paar. I had known that she was a Vogue model, but I didn't know about all these other things. Pretty cool.
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08:58:07 AM,
Tuesday 3 September 2002
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My Great-Aunt Dot was in Ed Wood's movie Jail Bait. We watched it tonight for the first time and decided she was definitely the best actor there.
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09:59:44 PM,
Sunday 1 September 2002
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