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This story is offered as an example of disciplinary differences in dress codes. Twenty-one years ago, I interviewed for my current position (as a microbial ecologist) in bare feet. Job applicants were being put up in faculty homes. After dinner, I went to my room and took off my shoes to relax. I wasn't aware that the entire department was coming over for dessert. Anyway, the department had recently had one of those spiffs common in academe, this one involving microbiologists. One of the more influential professors later told me that my bare feet had helped me get my job, because they made me seem more like an ecologist.

-- Ethelynda Harding, Professor of Biology, California State University, Fresno (posted 1/29, 2:30 p.m., E.S.T.)
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