Gotta Keep 'Em Separated

There's been a change of plans, but tomorrow will still be a day of much traveling for Gina and me.

In the meantime, Virginia Tech, my good old alma mater, seems to have gotten itself into some bad publicity this week. Now, I can understand that if the Saudis are paying for part of the classes, there would be an understandable need to make sure their needs for teaching the classes are met. However, whoever thought it'd be a good idea to go ahead with gender separation at a state-run university AND didn't figure in the possibility of any backlash from, say, any of the female employees of the university... well, I lost my train of thought on that sentence, but a similar lack of focus must have been what let this whole thing go through in the first place.

Well, I doubt there will be any lasting repercussions with all of this, but as much as I love my school, sometimes the administrators goof up big time. It's a good idea to promote unity with some of our Middle Eastern counterparts, especially at a time like this, but you certainly don't want to unintentionally sow seeds of discord with your own employees at the same time.