Public policy, social issues, gender politics, religion, civitas, and other taboo topics fall under the hammer of Shava's iconoclasmic force of natural philosophy.
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Hockfield inaugurated as MIT president
Friday, May 06, 2005
9:59 AM
This week MIT gets a new president. Hockfield is hailed in the first paragraph of the first bio I read as the first life scientist to head up MIT -- she's a pioneering neuroscientist.
Only in the last paragraph of that full page bio did it say something like, "Oh, yeah, and she's the first woman to head up MIT too."
Her official bio in the inaugural materials doesn't even mention she's the first woman to head up the 'tute.
This is typical MIT communication. "We aren't going to diminish the impact by saying it's cool that she's female. Being female or not shouldn't matter to the job. But it's an interesting footnote outside of the officious bits."
The fierce and subtle aspects of my personality were well honed in my decade here, if not born in this particular fire.
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