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I think the role models should be the people who are really out there practicing, and if I'm a role model I hope it's just I'm a role model of a person who is a fair, hopefully articulate on occasion. I really want to see my students go out and build, and I'd like them to be building more than I am. So I'm not sure just how, how much I should really be a role model. The point isn't trying to train a generation to go out and teach. The point is really to train a generation to go out there and build and make a better world. So, if I can help point them to some really good role models, that's important.
I have certainly had students who have told me that they have really appreciated seeing and, having a woman faculty member around. One they can talk to, particularly. I mean one issue-nothing infuriates me more than sort of the whole attitude and/or subject of faculty sleeping with students. I've often found that the women students really like there being a woman faculty member because there's at least someone who they can perhaps complain to if they need to. On occasion people have come in with concerns, but that is sort of a side issue. I think I've shown students that this is a field, obviously, that women can get into. I wish that I was building more and, I mean I feel the longer I teach the more sort of dysfunctional I become as far as working in an office. I mean, all of us who are teaching really have left the world of full time practice. Some people are balancing it perhaps more, but at a certain level I don't think a teacher shouldn't be a role model.
