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- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!eos!aio!gothamcity!kjenks
- From: kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov
- Subject: Re: Minority Kids into Techies (was Re: Free Middle/High School Broadcasts)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.035759.20473@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Originator: kjenks@gothamcity
- Keywords: discrimination
- Sender: kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov
- Organization: NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office
- References: <1992Nov16.223518.16994@nhgs.vak12ed.edu> <1992Nov16.184820.1@fnalo.fnal.gov> <ppw1kvp@rpi.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 03:57:59 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <ppw1kvp@rpi.edu> kentm@aix.rpi.edu (Michael V. Kent) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.184820.1@fnalo.fnal.gov> higgins@fnalo.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:
- >
- >>Would it be simpler to ask white males, politely, *not* to become
- >>engineers?
- >
- >This is already being done, on a large scale, in the aerospace industry,
- >though hardly politely. Bottom left corner of sig says it all.
- >
- >Mike
- >
- >--
- >Michael Kent kentm@rpi.edu
- >McDonnell Douglas Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- >
- >Tute Screwed Aero Class of '92 Apple II Forever !!
-
- I, for one, would like to hear that story.
-
- I have been passed over for hiring and promotion at least twice at NASA
- because I'm a white male, and "minorities" and women were needed to
- meet a quota (which is currently called a "hiring goal" in Human
- Resources euphamism). I will never file a complaint because of the
- career-limiting aspects of arguing with HR policies. But I suspect
- that the space program is not alone in having this problem, so this may
- not be strictly a sci.space topic.
-
- -- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office
- kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (713) 483-4368
-
- "he (n.) The third person singular pronoun in the
- nominative case, masculine gender. 1. Used to represent
- the male person, animal or other being last mentioned or
- implied. 2. Used to represent any person whose sex is not
- specified: 'Everyone knows he is mortal.'"
- -- American Heritage Dictionary
-