Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Celebrating Obama's victory

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On Nov 5, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Lyle Scheer wrote:

> The running joke here at Bear Grass Village in Ashland, Oregon, when  
> we
> were still trying to sell our last unit, was that we were holding out
> for a single elderly gay black conservative/republican male.

Cohousers are not alone. A friend whose university department was  
trying to hire an economist had an empty tenure line for two years  
because the department of young white liberal men had to meet an  
affirmative action quota. They needed a Black Marxist woman who had  
lived in China (or other managed economy), who was over 50 (age  
distribution), in a wheelchair or blind, and preferably a card- 
carrying Communist.

Another campus was not allowed to replace an Asian Art History  
specialist because they couldn't find a black candidate with a  
completed Ph.D., even when they waived teaching experience. The  
President of the campus wouldn't believe that there were only two in  
the world that spoke English, and neither of them was willing to move  
to a small town in the middle of nowhere. One of them was in a bidding  
war over salary with Harvard and, I think, Stanford. And the other one  
was at Yale.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing,Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org