“let us build a 1/2 mile suspension bridge using African traditional methods. “
Somebody should simply ask her if she wants to descend in a research submarine which has been built with “alternative ways of knowing”, or, if she is willing to fly on a passenger aircraft built to the same non-standards.
Leah Jamieson, the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, announced Tuesday (March 28) the next Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education will be Donna Riley, a professor at Virginia Tech.
Kamyar Haghighi? Eh?
Mizzz Riley:
This is madness. I close with more of Mizz Riley's "thoughts" (she is said to be a "thought leader"):
One of rigors purposes is, to put it bluntly, a thinly veiled assertion of white male (hetero)sexuality, she writes, explaining that rigor has a historical lineage of being about hardness, stiffness, and erectness; its sexual connotationsand links to masculinity in particularare undeniable.