Ronn Blankenship wrote:
>
> At 01:36 PM 6/6/02, Jeffrey Miller wrote:
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> >
> > comfy chairs, formed & adjustable desks, task lighting instead of
> >cruddy florec's, adequate HVAC that works,
>
> That condition will only be satisfied when every employee has a private
> office with an individually adjustable thermostat, plus outlets with enough
> capacity to handle space heaters, electric blankets, and fans brought from
> home (and no regulations limiting their use). IOW, last night, as at
> almost every other class meeting, some students (mostly male) were
> complaining that the classroom was too hot and stuffy, and other students
> (mostly female) were complaining that the room was too cold--in fact, I've
> actually had students leave at the mid-class break to go back to their cars
> to get a jacket or to their dorm rooms and return with a blanket.
>
> At least I have an explanation for this phenomenon which has puzzled
> mankind and womankind for ages. Actually, it was author John Gray who
> provided the critical clue in the title of his best-known book. On Mars,
> the temperature rarely gets above the freezing point of water, whereas on
> Venus, the temperature is over 800�F. No wonder, then, that Earth is
> always going to be too cold for women and too hot for men . . .
There's just one flaw with that theory: A pregnant woman wants it
freezinger than almost any man. Even a pregnant woman carrying a girl
baby can want it freezinger than almost any man. (Although the two
cases I have the most familiarity with, the pregnant co-worker and
myself, were pregnancies where the mother was carrying a boy.)
This suggests a possible solution to the problem for some of your female
students, but you'd probably get in trouble for mentioning it. :)
Julia
