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I agree that the question about professors' perceptions of students
sexual identity is off base.  I have known enough people to know
that whatever cues I might use to judge are not good cues.  The only
students whose sexual identity I am sure of are those who have come
out to me or the class.  I do not often know that students are
hetero--it's likely that I assume they are in situations where assumptions
about sexual identity are evoked.  But, right now, I'm not coming up
with examples of those situations.  I guess if a student mentions a
husband or wife or child and someone asked me later if that student
was hetero, I'd assume so.  When I read the survey (I don't teach
public speaking), I thought, well, only so and so and so and so because
they let me know.  Otherwise, I would have to try to review my
rosters--it's just not one of my ready-to-hand categories for students.
And if I did review my rosters, I would have nothing to go by.  It
seems like a question with only arbitrary or random answers.

Joan L-W



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Joan Livingston-Webber   webber@unomaha.edu
"It's hard to work with a group when you're omnipotent." -Q, TNG