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There's another daughter who's in
the graduate program here at the
School of Social Work, and my one
daughter has just graduated from
New York University.
D: Do the traveling and public
appearances which fill your
schedule as the president's wife
make your role as a professor more
difficult?
S: Definitely yes, that's why I only
work part time. You have to
understand that I really choose to
teach. The University has been very
supportive of my own work, and to
a large extent I have made a choice
myself to participate as the wife of
the president. I've learned a lot, and
I think it's been helpful to me and
helpful to the University.
D: Would you say that your
position as a faculty member makes
your role as the wife of the
president different?
S: Yes, I think it keep me in touch
with students. You forget that you
are in a community where the
major part is 18-26 years old. I used
to say it was sort of like reading
comic books- only the reader gets
older. It's very helpful to be in
touch with what younger people are
thinking about things. Also, I hear
what faculty people are thinking
about as colleagues. Sometimes it's
difficult because I'm really mainly a
listener; I'm certainly not a doer. I
can listen, but I can't really
respond. And I don't try to. I think
it's best all around if I just
participate in my special field.
D: Have you found that your
colleagues come to you in hope
that you'll communicate their
concerns to your husband?
S: I think they do, but what I try to
do is, if somebody really wants to
ask me something, I usually try to
help them get in touch with who I
think they ought to be getting in
touch with.
D: Your free time must be very
limited, what do you do when you
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S: Free time is really rare, es-
pecially at certain times of the year.
Really free time we like to spend
with family and friends. We like to
bike ride and walk, and we like to
travel.
D: You are one of a minority of
women faculty members at the
University, do you think this
makes your position at all different
than a male faculty member's?
S: I'm not the best person to ask
about that - I came late to the
academic world as a career. I also
only work part-time, and I don't
have a tenured position. I do think
that there are some oustanding
women on the faculty, and I think
that this year a large percentage of
the faculty hired in LSA are
women. I do think that they're
really valued in the University, but
they have to work very hard. They
may also be married and have
children, and they have to compete
in a very equal manner with men. I
think they do, but I think it's very
difficult to put it all together.
D: Do you think the lack of women
faculty hurts female undergraduates
in terms of having role models?
S: I don't know. I think there are
increasing numbers of role models.
One of the things that I see
happening is that many young
women do have the aspiration to,
members at a University is another
issue. I believe that we are
responsible to encourage them to
get a higher education.
D: You are in a unique position as a
professor and wife of the Uni-
versity's president, do you have any
input or say in administrative
decisions?
S: This is a very complex in-
stitution - there are 15 or 17
colleges, and each college is
structured with a dean and many
decisions are made within the
college by the faculty. The kinds of
situations which come up there I
really don't know much about. But
I am very interested in issues of
how a community lives together,
like the situations we have seen
recently. I think it's important to
support an environment where
people can talk about different
things. I try to provide an op-
portunity for that. I do, in the sense
that the house is a place where
people can meet. That's probably
not very clear, but the University is
a very different kind of organ-
ization. It's a body of self-
governing groups, so really a
president's wife doesn't really get
involved in all of those levels of
academic or organizational de-
cisions. U
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This man understood the word
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new peaks.
The B-52s - Check the
hairdos. Check the goofy skirts.
Check Fred in the big-ass suits.
And tell me you don't want to look
like that, at least some of the time?
RUN-D.M.C. - The hats
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commitment to leisure wear
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necktie-mongerers.
Parliament-Funkadelic -
Must be seen to be believed. Check
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The Detroit Tigers at Ti-
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crisp, white polyester. Normal
people should be allowed to go to
work dressed like this, but I'd skip
the protective cup.
Harpo Marx - Nice over-
coat, nice hat, nice hair, nice horn.
The Gabor Sisters -
Cumulatively, these women are the
feminine equivalent of Liberace.
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it, a whole lot of fun.
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