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@larand Amen to all that. My belief -- and it is no more than that -- is that there is a lot of bad behaviour as young people work out how to behave. Perhaps the biggest problem that I see is that all parties are hypersenstitive. Authorities cover up some of the time and over react some of the time. Women feel powerless because they are powerless, and also use threats because they know that they can shut down discussion, at least for a while. And men are so preoccupied with status among their peers that they ignore what other parties may be feeling.

So that one survey doesn't tell us a whole lot, in my view. Is UT any better or worse than other universities in the US? Who knows?

Tom Wolfe's I am Charlotte Simmons is not one of his best books, but it is a pretty good read. Not that he has any kind of monopoly on truth. But good novelists good at this sort of thing.

// @matigo @phoneboy @skematica @jws @joanna @jasonechols

@larand 11 whole seconds between my boorish bull in a china shop and your subtlety.

// @matigo @bazbt3 @phoneboy @skematica @jasonechols

@feorlen Sounds to me like you've got your eyes open and the angles covered. Good luck.

// @matigo @kdfrawg

@jws Where's @joanna when you need her?

// @matigo @phoneboy @skematica @jasonechols

@feorlen I'd be very wary if I were you. I don't know your technical skills at all, but there are plenty of pretty well-qualified Italians. Unless they need great English too, I'd be wondering why they can't hire locally.

// @matigo @kdfrawg

@matigo You may be correct. What gets me here is that every bureaucrat has a different interpretation of the rules. That makes getting through the labyrinth trickier than it should be. I don't object to bureaucracy. I object to flexible bureaucracy.

// @kdfrawg @feorlen

@matigo Government at all levels is a huge employer. I think maybe 55 per cent of jobs are public sector. The bureaucracy for non residents is pretty formidable, although an international employer ought to help with that.

// @kdfrawg @feorlen

@feorlen I'm not in the job market, but everything I read and hear tells me that unemployment is high, especially for young, qualified people.

// @kdfrawg

Night all. Looking forward to the long light evenings from tomorrow, he said provocatively.

@jasonechols Put that you worked there but don't offer them as a reference.