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...some 500 civil-engineering students. While I had many professors who really went out of their way to make sure we were treated no differently, I still had a couple of unfortunate incidents. My first year I nearly flunked out of physics and thought, "Oh, I really don't belong here." In my second year, I was taking a steel-design class with only one other woman in the class. And the professor, at the beginning of the course, looked at us and said, "Neither one of you should be here because women should not be in engineering." I thought...
...just to chivy out the secrets of a man who didn't appear to have any but also to understand how they could have remained secret for so long--why it is that, as Rips puts it, "we are often in greatest ignorance of the place to which we belong...
Walls didn't belong to anyplace growing up. Her father was an itinerant electrician who dreamed of being an inventor; her mother was an occasional schoolteacher who dreamed of being an artist. Both were failures at everything. But they chose to spin their inability to stick to anything as a glorious crusade against bourgeois conformity, and they dragged their kids along for the ride. In her extraordinary book The Glass Castle, Walls describes a childhood spent careering across the country, from California to West Virginia, in a succession of ever more rattletrap cars, in pursuit of increasingly implausible get-rich...
...Grumet-Morris’ isn’t the name most frequently bandied about in relation to first-team All-American or the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, presented annually to college hockey’s top performer. Not even in the ECAC. That distinction would appear to belong to Cornell’s David McKee, who leads the country in both GAA and shutouts while trailing only Grumet-Morris in save percentage. As recently as Tuesday, pundits from insidecollegehockey.com named the Big Red sophomore as one of their five current favorites for the Hobey Baker, while relegating Grumet-Morris...
European settlers in Kenya felt that “Mau Mau adherents did not belong to the human race,” claims Elkins. She compares the vilification of Jews with settlers’ characterizations of Mau Mau. These European settlers described the important Mau Mau initiation oath—which involved goat intestines, blood-drinking, the eating of raw flesh, and so on—as “bestial” and un-Christian. I must confess that I do not understand the zinger in her argumentation. Lest anyone forget, Mau Mau was a violent movement whose initiation...