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Washington State LUG to Hold "Nerd Auction"
elrous0 writes "As part of a PR stunt, a Washington Linux user group is holding a "Nerd Auction" and appealing to local sororities to exchange dates and makeover advice for their computer skills and homework assistance. 'The problem is that we're all still nerds. Let's face it, guys. If anyone's going to bid on us, we'll need some spicing up,' writes Washington State Linux Users Group president Ben Ford on the group's website. 'And who better to help with that than sorority girls who like nothing better than a makeover?' So far there has been no comment on how a Linux user group is going to help sorority girls with their Windows machines."
This is not the Washington State LUG, it's the Washington State University LUG
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They know they can get nerds like us to work on their computer and homework assignments and have to give nothing in return.
Would you feel better if she went on a date with you simply because you provided computer help? Because she owes you a favor? You don't want to go on a date in exchange for goods and services. The woman will be shallow and she's really not worth dating.
Not to mention, the idea smells a bit like prostitution, which is generally bad for your self image.
You deserve better. There's probably a cute geeky girl right down the hall, or who is a friend of a friend, etc. Talk to HER.
Looking back at my college years, I can't believe how many cute geeky girls there were. None of them were in a sorority.
To clarify on some details: We are the Linux Users Group at Washington State University, in Pullman, Washington. Enrollment in general in Computer Science has been down for the past few years. This has more greatly affected female enrollment, than anything else, where the number of females in WSU's Computer Science department is somewhere below 10%. What I'd like to make clear is that this event is not being put on to get geeks laid. Rather, it is to make the rest of campus aware that we exist, and are human. Our president, Ben Ford, and a female member came up with the idea to run this event. We hadn't planned for it to be much more than a fund raiser. But when the Associated Press ran a story on this yesterday, things started to blow up. Since then, our president has been shipped off to news studios. I've been on TV twice, and can hardly keep my phone from going off long enough for me to be interviewed. At the time of this writing, three sororities are in full participation for the event. The support has been so huge, that instead of a small fund-raiser like we were intending, the goal now is to raise enough money for a female scholarship in Computer Science.
True, except that no-one calles WSU "Washington State". It's referred to most commonly as "Wazzu" or sometimes W.S.U.
No, no. That top 10% that women want are the gay men: once you've become gay, you can have all the women you want.
The top 10% of the women turn gay, usually because they've been harassed endlessly by the bottom 10% of men.
As a female engineer at WSU I am VERY aware of the lack of women in our field. Having an already somewhat small department, there is only a handful of women who are active in clubs. Even if they could get those women to help with the auction, it wouldn't attract the same attention that having a sorority participate has. We do not have a chapter of Alpha Omega Epsilon at WSU (Yes, I know that it is an engineering sorority. I am a member of AOE from a previous institution). We also do not have any chapters of the several engineering fraternities. Knowing a majority of the guys in the auction and organizing it, I don't think they are being sexist or ignoring the fact that women can be in technical majors. While it may not be the best way to encourage women towards CS or Linux, I don't see anything particularly disturbing with the event.
So, you are proud to bite the heads off of chickens in a carnival show, but you aren't interested in technical and academic matters? Perhaps slashdot is not the right website for you? Sounds like you should be at www.chickenbeheaders.com.
Using Linux might make me a geek, but it does not make me a nerd.I don't see how. Using Linux does not require you to bite the heads off of chickens.
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