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TUESDAY:
Arbor Anecdotes

WEDNESDAY:'
Before You Were Here

THURSDAY:
Campus Characters

FRIDAY:
Explained

You've got males
Inside the University's most male-dominated major

When she was growing up, LSA
senior Laura Bickle heard stories
from her mother about the gender
gap in many fields of mathematics
and science.
It didn't deter her, though.
Bickle is one of only 21 female
computer science majors at the Uni-
versity, Males outnumber females
eight-to-one in the program.
Computer science is the under-
graduate major at the University
with the highest ratio of females to
males.
The most female-dominated
major is dental hygiene, which has
84 female students and not a single
male.
Although Bickle came to the
University with the intention of
studying business, she quickly
switched into the computer science
program.
"What the students were doing

in Engin 101 looked like a lot more
fun," she said.
At first, computer science classes
were intimidating, Bickle said.
"Guys on North (Campus) wear
much more casual clothing and are
also less likely to sit next to girls
they don't know," she said. "I used
to be afraid that I smelled bad but
was assured that it wasn't me."
Bickle said gender balance isn't
her most serious concern with her
major, though.
"My mom still thinks I'm going
to be living in a box in Silicon Val-
ley when I'm 30," Bickle said.
Randall Brown, an LSA sopho-
more majoring in computer science,
said some male computer science
students are uncomfortable having
females in their classes.
"There are usually open seats
next to the girls in computer sci-
ence classes," Brown said. "Maybe

we are afraid of them."
Not all male computer science
students are afraid of their female
counterparts, though.
School of Music junior Myron
Bishop, who entered the University
as a computer science major, said he
tried to reach out to the females in
his classes.
"I tried to befriend a lot of the
women and make them feel more
comfortable," he said.
The question remains: Why do
some majors attract more males
and others more females?
Brown said his major is male-dom-
inated because males are more likely
to be obsessed with their computers.
"Computer science is mostly
male because after guys are done
looking at porn, we're too lazy to
leave the computer, so we find other
stuff to do," Brown said.
DANIELLE KRUIZENGA

LSA junior Steve Santure, a computer science major, works in
the Computer Science Building on North Campus yesterday.

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CRIME NOTES
Tissues, USB
drive pilfered
WHERE: Haven Hall
WHEN: Thursday at about 3
p.m.
WHAT: A tissue box, a wrist
guard, a USB drive and an
M-Token were stolen from an
unattended desk, the Depart-
ment of Public Safety reported.
Disappearing
makeup found
WHERE: Taubman Health
Care Center
WHEN: Friday at about 3:45
p.m.
WHAT: About $25 worth of
Avon makeup products were
reported stolen, DPS reported.
The products were later found.
Student passes
out in restroom
HERE: Stockwell Hall
WHEN: Saturday at about 1:30

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

a.m.
WHAT: A female student was
found passed out in a women's
restroom, DPS reported. The
student, who was drunk, was
taken to the hospital.
Burnt food leads
to fire alarm
WHERE: South Quad
WHEN: Saturday at about 11:30
p.m.
WHAT: South Quad was evacu-
ated because of a fire alarm, DPS
reported. The alarm was trig-
gered by smoke from food that
was burned in a microwave.
University van
found damaged
WHERE: Lot M-28, 1500
Washington Heights
WHEN: Thursday at about 3
p.m.
WHAT: A University minivan
was found with a damaged
right quarter panel, as well as a
broken light and bumper, DPS
reported.

Symposium on
helping the poor
WHAT: A conference featur-
ing philosophy, public health
and public policy faculty
WHO: The Institute for the
Humanities
WHEN: Today from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
WHERE: Forum Hall
Lecture from
U.N. executive
WHAT: A lecture by the
formser chief executive of the
United Nations World Food
Programme
WHO: Catherine Bertini
WHEN: Today at 4 p.m.
WHERE: 1120 Weill Hall
Lecture about
cancer finds
WHAT: A discussion of the

progress made in cancer diag-
nosis and prevention
WHO: Department of Human
Genetics
WHEN: Today at 4 p.m.
WHERE: 5915 Buhl Building
CORRECTIONS
* The caption of a photo in
Friday's Daily (Price is rightfor
Enginfrosh) misidentified Jer-
emy Posner as Richard Posner.
* A story in Thursday's
Daily (Say no to Prop 2 survey,
'U' cello profs) said Toward a
Fair Michigan distributed
surveys about affirmative
action to faculty. The sur-
veys were sent to 12 Univer-
sity administrators.
0 The same story falsely
attributed information to
William Allen, co-founder of
Toward a Fair Michigan. The
story erroneously stated that
Allen said the survey was
meant to generate discussion
about affirmative action and
to test the University's com-
pliance with the law.
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An elementary school
teacher in Columbus, Ohio
was suspended after she
placed tape over the mouth of a
4th grade student who wouldn't
stop talking, the Macon Tele-
graph reported. The student
suffers from attention deficit
hypertension disorder.
After its 61-49 win over
Northwestern yesterday,
the Michigan women's
basketball team has won two
out of three conference games
for the first time in three years.
Michigan had just one confer-
ence win in the past two sea-
sons combined.
>>FOR MORE, SEE SPORTSMONDAY
A California doctor
pleaded guilty last week
to stealing a hand from a
cadaver, Reuters reported. He
gave the hand to a stripper, who
was later caught showing it off
in her New Jersey apartment.

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