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- From: coren@speed.osf.org (Robert Coren)
- Subject: Re: discrimination at CMU
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.233421.5984@osf.org>
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <Bxnrno.GBo@queernet.org> <1992Nov13.151255.17143@tc.cornell.edu> <CORWIN+.92Nov18133237@MORPHEUS.CIMDS.RI.CMU.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:34:21 GMT
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- In article <CORWIN+.92Nov18133237@MORPHEUS.CIMDS.RI.CMU.EDU>, corwin+@CMU.EDU (Scott Safier) writes:
- > In article <1e1bpdINNjbn@mizar.usc.edu> adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:
- >
- > Besides,
- > no one has ever been cast in a plum role because he or she
- > has been able to wave a diploma in the casting director's
- > face.
- >
- > In the issue of Theater Week which contained the article on CMU, CMU
- > had an ad trying to attract perspective students. Their slogan was,
- > "It's all in a name."
-
- Which means that CMU wants its prospective students to believe that a
- diploma from CMU will help them get roles. Maybe also that they want
- casting directors to believe that. Maybe they believe it themselves.
- None of these make it true. (I have no knowledge of whether it's true
- or not.)
-
- This is beside the central point, if there still is one.
-