Tired of boys
I joined a group/club/thing this quarter. I don't think I've been in a club since Marcella and I founded the Bridge Club freshman year. I was pretty awful at bridge.
Anyway, it's SAWA, the student group for Women in Architecture. There was an agenda meeting last Friday, kinda boring, until maybe 20 minutes into it, this woman walks in. Shorter, professor-age, very urban: dressed in all black with funky short hair. (You see this less here than you might expect for a design program). She introduces herself as the dean of the school, all of Architecture and the Arts. And she just wants to introduce herself because she thinks women are great and whatever else, I guess.
But she sits down and starts talking to us about her life and career, being a woman, being an architect, engineer, academic. It was just another of those moments for me, an "I want to be like her" moment. I felt that for my adviser at Northwestern, my adviser here, Dan's mom, and reading this (http://www.salon.com/books/int/2007/09/21/naomi_klein/), Naomi Klein. Just super inspired by successful hip women. It's a serious boys' club around here, so it's nice to find that where you can.
And I have to post this, from the same interview:
"There is a new level of integration between homeland security companies and media companies. General Electric, which owns NBC, has been in the weapons industry for some time but has become very active in the homeland security business. They recently purchased InVision, which provides bomb detection for airports. Since 9/11 InVision has received $15 billion in contracts from the Department of Homeland Security -- more such contracts than any other company. A company like that gains from the atmosphere of crisis and fear that is spread through media outlets."
Anyway, it's SAWA, the student group for Women in Architecture. There was an agenda meeting last Friday, kinda boring, until maybe 20 minutes into it, this woman walks in. Shorter, professor-age, very urban: dressed in all black with funky short hair. (You see this less here than you might expect for a design program). She introduces herself as the dean of the school, all of Architecture and the Arts. And she just wants to introduce herself because she thinks women are great and whatever else, I guess.
But she sits down and starts talking to us about her life and career, being a woman, being an architect, engineer, academic. It was just another of those moments for me, an "I want to be like her" moment. I felt that for my adviser at Northwestern, my adviser here, Dan's mom, and reading this (http://www.salon.com/books/int/2007/09/21/naomi_klein/), Naomi Klein. Just super inspired by successful hip women. It's a serious boys' club around here, so it's nice to find that where you can.
And I have to post this, from the same interview:
"There is a new level of integration between homeland security companies and media companies. General Electric, which owns NBC, has been in the weapons industry for some time but has become very active in the homeland security business. They recently purchased InVision, which provides bomb detection for airports. Since 9/11 InVision has received $15 billion in contracts from the Department of Homeland Security -- more such contracts than any other company. A company like that gains from the atmosphere of crisis and fear that is spread through media outlets."
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