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- From: jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh 'K' Hopkins)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Minority Kids into Techies (was Re: Free Middle/High School Broadcasts)
- Message-ID: <BxwG0M.LvD@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 06:43:32 GMT
- Article-I.D.: news.BxwG0M.LvD
- References: <1992Nov16.223518.16994@nhgs.vak12ed.edu> <1992Nov16.184820.1@fnalo.fnal.gov>
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- higgins@fnalo.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:
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- >I agree it's a damned shame more females, and members of American minority
- >groups, don't take up these professions. But sometimes I wonder...
-
- >Would it be simpler to ask white males, politely, *not* to become
- >engineers? Or it might be even more effective to pay them. "You
- >don't want to be a scientist, kid! Here's some cash."
-
- Hmm... Seems to me that any scientist/techie type who is after money is in the
- wrong field. Be a sports hero or write a romance novel.
-
- >This would help make room for the ambitions of young people of other
- >races, genders, or ethnic heritages to enter techie professions.
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- I don't have the stats to prove it, but I'm sure the ratios of fetal engineers
- and scientists (those in school) are improving. They still aren't great, but
- they're far better than they used to be.
-
- --
- Josh Hopkins jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
-
- "Why put off 'til tomorrow what you're never going to do anyway?"
-