Date:         Tue, 09 Dec 97 14:30:45 EST
From: danielle <DMC96005@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: SOCGRAD digest 135
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Hear hear Linda!!
Tom's latest comment was actually his most offensive to me -- that
people should "wait" to go until their situations clear up a little.
Well, when would that be, pray tell.  most people do not have that
kind of flexibility (or resources to wait that long).  If those people
who have obligations such as children or elderly parents waited until
the children were grown or the parents were dead, then a large
portion of our grad student population would be elsewhere, rather than
improving their minds (and the institution of acadmia in my opinion).

Who the hell are you to tell single parents to wait to go back to
school?  Seeing as most of those are *still* women, that would mean
that your advice translates to telling women to clear up their lives
before they clutter the precious institution of academia with their
personal problems.

Wake up please.  Your elitism is rearing its ugly head again......

Danielle