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

[Richard L Kohlhaas (rlkohl]

Sharon:  Your email was just a joke. . . . wasn't it?



From:   Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>
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> 
> 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
> ----
> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing,Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
> 
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