Solar Decathlon Will Be on the National Mall After All

February 24, 2011, 10:57 pm

The U.S. Department of Energy’s decision to take the Solar Decathlon away from its usual location on the National Mall caused a bit of a furor recently—and, no doubt, headaches for the Obama administration, which is trying to promote clean energy and the spirit of innovation.

Now the Energy Department has announced that the 2011 Solar Decathlon will indeed remain on the National Mall—well, sort of. The houses will not be set up on the Great Lawn, in front of the Smithsonian Institution buildings between the Capitol and the Washington Monument, as in the past. Rather, the decathlon houses will be placed down by the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and the Jefferson Memorial, near the Tidal Basin.

“We look forward to holding another world-class Solar Decathlon in a world-class location—the National Mall’s West Potomac Park,” said Steven Chu, secretary of energy, in a written statement. “Keeping the competition on the National Mall property allows the students to proceed with their existing home designs, specifically tailored for Washington’s latitude, temperature, and humidity conditions. The West Potomac site is in close proximity to a number of attractions and will provide an ideal stage to highlight clean-energy solutions for thousands of public visitors.”

The student contestants, their supporters, and observers of the design field seem pleased with the outcome. “I feel incredible. I feel happy,” Elisabeth Neigert, a graduate student at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, told The Washington Post.

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3rdtyrant

The only reason faculty wish to be acknowledged, in my view, is that we worked our tails off to get where we are (usually), and since many of our friends and acquaintances do not care a grote about whether a Canterbury Tales Manuscript was actually written or edited by Chaucer himself, we must turn to a scholarly audience that is, at least, sympathetic. Scholars ought to be sympathetic to one another–particularly in the humanities–since many are fighting the same battle. This underpins the desire for respect and value, not ego. If administration values a professor’s work, administration will likely be slower to grind it under foot. Some institutions have businessmen as presidents, and therefore the humanities suffer. Humanist presidents tend to treat the humanities with more respect. It’s a remarkably simple equation that translates into this: if the chair or dean treat a faculty member with respect and value that faculty member’s scholarship, that scholar is less likely to be a casualty of budget cuts or re-allocations. Even if the budget constraints come, a faculty member who knows he or she is appreciated can work amicably toward the same academic goal, whereas a faculty member who feels disprized will see a cut as an attack on him or her and on the entire discipline. The implications of a cold relationship with dept. and college-level administration are that opportunities might get missed, and one’s interests might get moved to the front of the chopping-block line. Ergo, self-preservation, not personality stroking, might motivate collegiality–just as societies began as ways to preserve the individual, so might academic sociality provide cues for the academic about his or her potential longevity.
3rdtyrant

Indeed. It seems counter-productive to dangle this without the data, but I am certain it will be forthcoming in a publication!
vceross

Well-put! I stand corrected.
profmomof1

Gotten better here; used to be that more than half the spaces were taken up with long-term storage of cars by students living on campus. Now that long-term parking has been moved to remote edge of campus with shuttles on holidays etc. when those cars actually get moved. Has helped a lot, now I can actually find a place without circling campus over and over again. Would take a bus if there were one, but none go out to suburbs. 6 miles too far to walk, especially toting books etc. Bike lanes are intermittent; would require too many spots that are dangerous with roaring traffic, narrow roads and no bike lanes (3 of my students have died here on bikes).
mlisaacs

I took early retirement in 2003 because of parking. When asked why I retired so early, I always
answered “parking.” My non-academic friends never really believed me. When parking took
so much time and energy from all of us, morale suffered, tempers were short and people began
to take less interest in campus life. Much was lost when Parking Services became the
second most important agency on campus…… second only to the Athletic Department.
http://www.facebook.com/florence.s.farrat Florence Stathis Farrat

Parking seems to be a problem on all campuses. Two years ago they changed the start time of classes after 11am by adding 10 minutes. All this due to the street parking signs that do not allow parking until 11am. Students were late to 11am classes because they insisted on waiting in their cars until 11am. Problem here was that it shifted all the times for subsequent classes and messed up the room usage. ARRRRRR
lewandowski

Very amusing responses here and if parking is that bad at some colleges than the faculity senate should serious consider pushing for more 5 story parking garages instead of wasting expensive & limited land on a asphate jungle. Reduce the carbon footprint by biking perhaps – good for the heart they say!.

Why a garage. Simple, in the north, no snow on the car when you get out. In the south, keep that car a lot cooler and helps lessen damage to the auto paint. Each college goes out for bonds to build academic buildings than get smart and get a academic parking lgarage. Make lemonade out of parking lemon! INNOVATE!
13_echo_40

Sounds like an opportunity to apply an entrepreneurial solution to a vexing situation…..and now he’s got the free time to do it.
11272784

This is a ridiculous proportion of overselling by the institution. All institutions oversell parking to some degree, but this is outrageous and unethical.

If they’re overselling to this degree, it should be to fund multiple parking structures which will accommodate at least 80% of campus traffic.
panacea

Parking is a terrible problem on my campus, even after administration got a county bond to build a new parking deck. If you have morning classes and don’t get on campus by 7:30 am, you have to dance the “Parking Lot Salsa” in order to find a space. Evenings aren’t as bad, which makes teaching Fall Evenings almost a joy parking wise.

There are no bike racks on my campus, and biking isn’t really an option because drivers here are so cyclist unfriendly.

I turned down an opportunity to work at a major university trauma center because I would have had to 1) pay $200/year for parking (actually a hunting license), and 2) parking in a far distance lot and get shuttled in during basketball season.

I will never take a job where I have to pay for parking, unless public transportation, walking, or biking is a viable option.
mutualrespect37

Sounds like an Onion headline–but parking can be a major hassle on campus.
old nassau’67

1. Dr., not Mr., Middlemiss
2. 31 years will earn him will earn him 62% of his highest three years, if he is enrolled in Dalhousie’s Defined Benefit Plan.
dtroop

>1. Dr., not Mr., Middlemiss.
Chronicle style: “Use of ‘Dr.’ is reserved for medical doctors.”
mxims

I share Mr. Middlemiss’s frustration with the university parking situation. Our president insists that there be no designated faculty parking to give the students the impression that everyone on campus is equal. This means that an increasingly graying faculty sometimes must walk at least half a mile to get to their offices, if they can find parking at all. I’ve circled the parking lots for upwards of a half hour to find a slot among the illegally parked students, only to end up wheezing at my office door, unable to breathe or speak after the half-mile walk and march up four flights of stairs (no elevator in the building). Now I arrive on campus before 8 a.m., not matter at what time I teach, and I have to walk only a quarter of a mile. But I cringe every time I pass the sign on one parking slot next to the administration building on this everyone-is-equal campus that reads “Reserved for the President.”
lackeydaniel

Cars . . . too many . . . too little space . . . may the next century see a drastic decrease in them . . . as we move to collective public transport and pedestrian friendly cities . . . .
rlmprez

I was on the faculty at IUPUI from 1974/85. Faculty purchased parking permits that basically allowed them to hunt for parking closer to the building. During winter snows approximately 25 to 30% of spots were lost to big piles of snow. Knowing what the campus is today, I can only imagine what the current parking challenge might be. Good luck to Prof. Middlemiss.
cbres

Parking is all over the place. At one large institution where I worked, you got a hangtag not only for a specific lot, but for a specific level or place in that lot. And you often had to walk a mile or more to a meeting. People at my most recent former institutions complained all the time but, in fact, they wanted to park near their offices, rather than walking ten minutes (tops) to their offices from the parking lot. Here at my new institution, where I am (again) an administrator, I hear occasional complaints but, at a small campus, the complaint tends to be, ‘I can’t park in the space right outside my office.’ The longest walk is under ten minutes.

As for me, unless I have to drive somewhere or the weather is bad, I take my bike. So this VP frees up a parking space for someone else.

Having said all this, Prof Middlemiss’s dilemma sounds unusually bad. But he must have been able to retire anyway. Oh, Canada!
awegweiser

The Devil with the Chronicle and its policy. A Ph D is as valid a title as MD or DDS or whatever if it is legitimate. Time to recognize those of us who have worked long and hard to achieve our status. This absurd policy should be dumped.
Art Wegweiser, Ph D PG
Prof Emeritus (Geology) actually more specifically Paleontology and I didn’t go for the MD because I hate the sight of blood. Disappointed my Mom.
captainshowbiz

What’s that saying? Something like: “A university is a collection of fiefdoms, departments, colleges, and empires held together by grievances over parking.”
mbelvadi

Heh, pretty much the only threat the Canadians have to defend themselves from is the Americans themselves – see the issue of “Arctic sovereignty” and control over the shipping lanes now open between Canadian islands due to global warming.
graddirector

For the Chronicle of all publications to perpetuate that offensive “convention” is baffling. I thought this publication was supposed to be our “trade” magazine that advocates for a respected status for college professors?
graylibrary

Indeed, LOL. Parking management is not rocket science, especially at a university.

1) Private spots for faculty at outrageous prices–I was paying $600/year over ten years ago for a spot next to the engineering building at UCF. Yes, it was worth it.

2) Agressive fines/towing–this can really be a cash cow in an industry where funding sources are diminishing rapidly.

3) Leave things alone, after 31 years one may wonder how productive he is. From the gist of the article, it didn’t sound like his department was overly upset that he resigned. Maybe this is Dalhousie’s way of weeding the herd.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=656911477 Bobette Bobette

Get a bicycle or a motorcycle?
southerntransplant

Our parking situation is ok for the plebian lots where I park. I still find the concept of paying for parking at a place you work pretty weird, especially where I am, which is by no means a big, congested city.
fourhats

Sure, if you can afford it, it’s great. Where we are, a house in walking distance of campus can easily cost close to a million.
dwthreepersons

Lets face it. He is just burned out. After 31 years of working in one place, he took any excuse that he could lay his hands on, to quit.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Newport/100000330111921 Dave Newport

We need more faculty willing to do this: quit if they can’t find a parking space. Then we’d be rid of all the faculty with their heads in dark places… It’s a start…
PJSmith1

The admissions team at Biblical Seminary in Hatfield PA had a little video fun with the issue of free parking: http://www.biblical.edu
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RSRD4KFLLVQHEM4QYHLLFBQR6M chaz

Good riddance.
donstefano

- If a faculty member has to spend time searching for parking, then this is a total waste for the university – this person could be doing more productive things with his time.

- arriving early: this only makes sense if you’re on campus all day. Not if you have appointments off campus with sponsors, community groups, etc. and then arrive eg in the afternoon on campus.

- Our university implemented similar parking policies, but forgot that their success depends on having good public transport links (we’re at the edge of the city, next to the highway. Public transport connections either arrive a 15min walk from my office, or run only every 10 min, and less early morning and in evenings). (BTW – luckily I live nearby and cycle – but I totally understand dr middlemiss – it’s the employer’s responsibility to make sure employees can actually work. Employers don’t gain anything by having employees waste time getting to campus and searching for parking)
donstefano

Reminds me of prof. Geim, 2010 nobel prize for physics. One of the first thing he asked at university was a parking spot at his building’s entrance. Asked why, he told this saves him 10 minutes each morning which he can no devote to work.

Not providing good parking or public transport facilities for university employees to me sounds a bit like giving them slow computers on purpose.
nampman

Professor Middlemiss I feel your pain. By the time I have fought the parking wars for 31 years at my college, I’ll likely be ready to walk in and quit on the spot too.
seraphpendragon

We have this same problem too. I hate to say it but I’m glad it’s not just us! We also for a while had the great fortune of tearing up several of our parking lots for some absurd green initiatives, forcing faculty and staff to park a couple of blocks away on a side street. There are worse things but it certainly doesn’t make it okay.
scamp640

Actually, I take issue with your smug comment about Canada’s defense policy. I realize you were trying to be funny (fail), but it is worth noting that in WWII, Canada entered the war in 1939, not 1941 like the United States. Where was the US at this point? Canada was carrying US water here, no? Second, in both WWI and WWII, Canadian troops, like those from Australia were often placed in the most dangerous situations experiencing the highest injury and fatality rates. Canadian troops served as cannon fodder so that troops from Imperial powers such as England and the United States did not have to. So, Canada is a smaller country, with fewer resources to deploy in its defense. However, as a former member of the Canadian Air Force, I can say that Canada has done a pretty decent job of defending itself and partnering with allies over the past century. In fact, I would say that Canadian defense policy has been overly generous to a fault in the service of British and American foreign policy goals.
jboncek

The bean counters keep telling us to run like a business. Funny–none of the businesses I ever worked for — except colleges — charged their employees for parking.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1487003047 Darcie Callahan

One of the great joys of working at a small school is I am able to park right next to my building at any time, no passes, no fees. I worked at a big behemoth school before this so I am joyful every morning now.
nybound

NYC, like many European cities, has a pretty decent public transport infrastructure. However, parking is a major source of frustration in many European cities as well.

I taught for several years at one university in Europe that was in the outer fringes of the downtown area. We had good bus service to downtown, but not so good service to the outlying areas where most faculty lived. The university had lots of parking spots, but no parking permits of any type. Supposedly, we couldn’t have faculty-only parking because that would offend their egalitarian ideals. We had completely open parking – so people who worked downtown (and had nothing to do with the university) would drive to campus, park, and take the bus the rest of the way into work. The lot was full by 8am, even though few classes started before 9am.

I wouldn’t say it was the reason I left, but it was one of the many little annoynaces that prompted me to return stateside. Now I pay about $100/yr to park right next to my building in a lot that is rarely over 3/4 full. Funny thing is that I like to start and end my day with a little walk, so I generally walk around campus for 10-15 minutes when arriving or leaving. But it is nice to be right next to my building when carrying stuff, running late, bad weather, etc.
svaillan

for us, walking distance of campus is likely to have you get mugged or stabbed. Or both.
fizmath

First of all, freshman living on campus should not have a car. This would improve grades and retention. No drunk driving. No going home on weekends.

Then we need to adress the larger issue of failed urban planning. Many of these schools were built when people walked or took the bus.
beedhamm

Charles Rand,
I think that those of us who have lost friends and family members fighting with the Canadian forces in Afghanistan would appreciate it if you stopped exercising your expertise on Canadian defense policy.
pragmatist

They are better off without him. He’s been in that seat for 31 years, its time to move on and make room for someone who appreciates the opportunity to teach. Obviously someone who doesn’t value their position enough to quit over something as insignificant as a parking space has outlived his/her usefulness in an academic environment, especially in today’s climate where teaching positions are increasingly harder to obtain, regardless of how competitive one may be. I am thankful every day that I have my position at a university, and would never dream of quitting over something like this. Good riddance.
12039333

At my university, it used to be that, if you wanted a parking space, you’d be better off to bring your own. In the past five years, the university has turned a waste lot behind a dorm into student parking; purchased an adjacent apartment complex for student housing, so residents can park there; raised faculty parking fees from $10 to $65 a year, twice that if you want a reserved space; used the proceeds from parking fees to fund a campus shuttle; built an additional dining facility within walking distance of the remoter classroom buildings; and negotiated with the local transit authority to add more routes between local apartment complexes and the campus. I don’t always get the best space, but I always get one.
kstjohn

Faculty and administrators get parking for $20/month (pre-tax). Other employees are placed on a waiting list for available parking. It used to take 13 years to get to the top of the waiting list. It is currently more than 18 years. Anyone without parking (and all students) park in a stadium lot about 1/2 to 3/4 mile from their work stations or class rooms and may ride a bus or walk.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000391356661 Kathryn Benson

I paid a premium price for a parking place at the university where I taught before retiring. For some reason it seemed to me that if upper admin valued the mission of the university which was to educate the general populace that it would value those who provided same education by signifying such value with a parking space….. not. Pay or play the parking lot game.
saraclausen

Some whines never change. A few decades ago I worked at a campus with free parking, but the students complained that the faculty got to park in reserved spaces at the front of the lots. An editorial in the student newspaper asserted that faculty should park farthest from the buildings like grocery store clerks do, because the students were the customers. Seems to me that both that editorial writer and unclemrbig have misunderstood the function of a university. Sharing hard-won insights about the nature of our world is not analogous to selling soap.
citizenship

The smug ignorance of the history of Canadian Armed Forces and their role in world events is appalling. Canadian men and women have served overseas many times since the 1890′s, particularly in World Wars I and II, Korea.

Canadian territory and citizens were assaulted by elements of both the German and Japanese naval forces during WWII. Japan also sent dozens of incediary ballons over Canada to ignite forest fires in attempts to hinder war production.

Since 1947, Canadian military units have participated in more than 200
operations worldwide, and completed 72 international operations. Canadian
soldiers, sailors, and aviators have provided conspicuous service during these conflicts and the country’s integral participation in NATO during the Cold War, First Gulf War, Kosovo War, and in UN Peacekeeping operations, such as the Suez Crisis, Golan Heights, Cyprus, Croatia, Bosnia, and currently in Afghanistan and Libya. Canada provided peace keepers to Viet Nam to enforce the Paris Peace Accords and an additional 30,000 Canadians volunteered to serve in combat with other allied armed services.

Don’t forget that Canada shares a very long “border” with Russia across the north polar area.
loutzl

parking where I am is about 1100/year with taxes, but i want all the folks who are talking about “market value”, “active transportation” and buses to remember that those with disabilities need the spots but there are certainly never enough spots near buildings. And more often than not drivers drive there “for just a minute because no one was using it”.
http://twitter.com/lesliemb Leslie Madsen-Brooks

In his book The Uses of the University, Clark Kerr quipped that the university is simply “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.” Too true!
icbomber23

I’ll just say it: Parking is the one time in my life I’m glad I’m handicapped, and I have no qualms about that
http://twitter.com/MollyGreathouse Molly Greathouse

And I thought I had it rough parking at work…
22259152

They don’t want to be capitalistic.
brodeur

Isn’t the motto of Dalhousie “Ora et Labora”, Pray and Work, now translated into the more modern “Pray for a parking place enroute to Work”.
fly_on_the_wall

Pragmatist–you sure are a sanctimonious one! Try having to come to campus three or four hours before your teaching, hovering like a mosquito waiting for a space to open up, and then there’s the mad dash to try and reach the spot before someone else gets there. All of this, and what happens to your office hours for your students who you would really like to be around for? At the school where I endure this nonsense as an adjunct, when I complained that I feared actually missing my own class because I couldn’t park my car (I have a 62 mile commute, so don’t ask me to ride a bike or walk) I was told I am a 38% employee and therefore do not “rate” faculty parking–and I get to do this looking at a faculty lot that at any given time is no more than half full. I even know of an administrator with a broken leg who was denied even a temporary disabled slot. On this campus, people refer to the parking office as “the Nazis.” It’s probably the one thing faculty and administration agree on. As someone else pointed out, managing parking lots is not rocket science. This is abuse of power, pure and simple.
pragmatist

If you’re work/parking environment is so stressful (as it obviously is – for you), just go home and watch Oprah and let someone who is truely grateful to have the job teach those classes. Or instead of watching Oprah, spend some time at the unemployment office – it may give you a new, better perspective.
frankmhowell

Good for you! May you find your retirement years full of discovery, enlightenment, and pleasure without the consternation of the bureaucracy. I am.
fly_on_the_wall

Been there, done that. You need to grow up.
phemalot

an argument in favour of virtual/online universities perhaps?
lesmaha

Also, the Canadian Mounties were on the job in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
coyabean

Such critical thinking here! I doubt that parking, in and of itself, led this man to quit. Horrible parking after accumulating 31 years of other grievances is what likely led him to quit. If you’ve never had a job where one more insipid comment or 4 hour meeting or bad boss or level of security added to the copier machine access doesn’t push you to do what you wanted to do anyway – quit – then maybe you’re the one with the privilege problem. It’s human. Leave him alone.
ramanujam

Parking is a problem on my campus, too, especially on rainy days. In a couple of cases, faculty members came back to take their motor cycles and found the tyres deflated. A punishment for parking the vehicles at unauthorized places on campus! What is much more vexatious than inadequate parking is professors lining up to use the only one men’s room on campus. In June 2011, when we came back to college after summer holidays, we found that the loo had disappeared and that a classroom stood in its place!
11891122

parking?
fiscalwizard

HOW IS IT THAT FACTORIES MANAGE TO PROVIDE PARKING FOR THEIR EMPLOYEES WITHOUT ALL THE FUSS THAT UNIVERSITIES MANAGE TO HAVE? HONDA BUILDS A MANUFACTURING FACILITY AND IT PROVIDES NECESSARY PARKING, SUBARU BUILDS AN ASSEMBLY PLANT AND IT PROVIDES NECESSARY PARKING, AND SO IT GOES. COULD CERTAIN ADMINISTRATORS BE SYSTEMATICALLY DUMB?
professor01

Parking is the #1 complaint for many, many college campuses. It will only get resolved when the arrogant, non-caring college administrators have their reserved parking spaces taken away from them.
prof_d

*Free. No problems for faculty or staff, problems for students to some degree (they have to walk two blocks). Can park in any lot. Hard to believe, but it’s true.
*Faculty and students close to campus do walk (even in blizzards), drops off the further away, especially in the winter.
*No reserved spots for administrators.
*We are hiring.
spinnaker

The chair has his own space, but is only on campus three of five days. No reason the sign couldn’t say “reserved for chair M-T-R.
http://www.facebook.com/andy.guy3 Andy Guy

There are some great ridesharing applications that colleges and universities can get that alleviate these problems. Check out Ridaroo – ridaroo.com. My school used them and it saved a lot of people money.
drmink

I served on a university parking committee, so I have a special perspective on the issue. Enforcement is a cash cow for the university. We made over $600,000 a year in student parking fines, and increased enforcement on days when it rained and snowed. They were the days the students were more willing to risk a ticket for parking illegally. Garages are expensive (we turned down a thousand space garage because of the 10 million dollar price tag). We ultimately shipped students off to the far end of campus, provided more shuttles, and told them to be grateful we didn’t make them walk. They were not happy.

As for faculty, why do you insist that the only viable option is to wait for a space to open in the lot of your choice? The first thing I learned as a new faculty member was that if I arrived at a certain time or day, parking was always available in this lot, but not in others. It took about a month. While I was not happy passing student vehicles parked illegally, I never turned down a opportunity to have them ticketed. I even told an ROTC professor to talk to his students about the role of honor when I caught one parked illegally in the faculty lot.

I’m sort of spoiled at my new job. Parking is $20/year, and the only lots that are ever full are the faculty ones. I part in the free lot 50 yards away, but my colleagues still complain about the lack of space. I just smile.
http://twitter.com/mirald Mira D’Souza

My university just introduced a carpooling system that allows faculty and students to coordinate carpools. Has anyone else had any experience with carpooling at universities? It seems like a good solution to tight parking spaces
big_giant_head

For us, walking distance to campus would put you next to a couple of cows and a small stand of cattle egrets.
drnels

Oprah’s no longer on the air.
drangie

I’ve never understood how an employer can fail to make it possible for its employees–faculty and staff alike–to actually get to the job site! Whether it’s public transportation, shuttles or parking lots, not providing a means to get to work makes as much sense as not providing a classroom or office or a chalkboard.
deliajones

Wheezing after half a mile and four flights of steps? Really, you should see your doctor for some tests. I am 65 and that would not be strenuous for me. Of course, I walk three miles daily.
minnesotan

For my generation, walking distance was uphill, both ways!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1631568031 Nico Jenkins

He lived ten miles away? Maybe if he biked more often he would have a better temperment!
http://twitter.com/proedgeltd David Matthews

it just proves that even on a striving world economy and shortage of petroleum products– skyrocketting prices, people want to stay within their comfort zone.
11274135

We had a delightful person the the parking office whose tag at the bottom of her emails was “Parking is my responsibility, not my fault.”
http://www.facebook.com/people/Nicholas-Stix/721916225 Nicholas Stix

I started reading your comment, but stopped when I saw that you weren’t going to identify the “European city” in question. People like you are ridiculous. Since you are already hiding behind a nom de cyber, you have no excuse for not identifying the city in question. For all I know, you just made up your entire story.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Nicholas-Stix/721916225 Nicholas Stix

“citizenship

“The smug ignorance of the history of Canadian Armed Forces and their role in world events is appalling. Canadian men and women have served overseas many times since the 1890′s, particularly in World Wars I and II, Korea.”

Canadian women have served in combat “many times since the 1890′s, particularly in World Wars I and II, Korea”? That’s amazing! I’d never read that. Can you provide a source corroborating that claim? What? Didn’t think so.

“Canada provided peace keepers to Viet Nam to enforce the Paris Peace Accords and an additional 30,000 Canadians volunteered to serve in combat with other allied armed services.”

“Viet Nam”? There was no “Viet Nam” at the time. There were two nations: North Vietnam and South Vietnam. And how did “enforce[ing] the Paris Peace Accords” work out? So, what were those “peace keepers” really doing with their time in South Vietnam?

I also do not recall the term “peace keepers” being used prior to the 1990s, when it was applied to worthless UN soldiers in places like Kosovo, who stood by and watched as locals committed atrocities.

Canadian women “serv[ing] overseas” and “peace keepers.” You must be one of those Canadian defense experts.
studenthealth

Anassa kata kalo kale ia ia ia nike. Bryn Mawr! Bryn Mawr! Bryn Mawr! President McAuliffe and women making a caring difference in the world. (forgive the fractured Greek) Margaret Ross MD (Link) BA 1970 Director, Behavioral Medicine, Boston University Student Health Services
huldah

Since 1996, SPHere – Sustainable Peace Here (spherecommunity.org) has been empowering Nepalese women through literacy, women’s groups and micro-enterprise. Tharu women, the indigenous tribals of Nepal’s Terai, were illiterate in 1996; they did not have access to money or economic choice. Today, women in Bachhauli VDC have started their own bank (Pancha Tara) and are providing loans to village men. SPHere’s grassroots women’s empowerment program has been very successful. While many such projects fail, I have developed very clear guidelines for success during my 15 years working in Nepal. Huldah Warren

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