21 Mar
2017
21 Mar
'17
10:20 p.m.
I had a student when I was Associate Director at Rutgers. He was sure that his key to
getting a job on graduation was to go smooze people at Uniforum. So he got on one of
our “social” mailing lists at the time and inquired what appropriate dress would be (i.e.,
should he wear a suit). Before anybody else could answer Erik Fair told him that the
dress was indeed casual, usually shorts, but you had to wear Birkenstocks. So here goes
this kid hunting around in New Jersey in December looking for Birkenstocks.
A few weeks after the conference he came back sporting a hair style more commonly found on
the gay men in the community. I asked if he had gone through a lifestyle change, and he
said this was how the guys he met at the conference had their hair. I had to point out
that most of the crowd we were hanging out with were indeed gay.