16 years ago, when I was a 22-year-old student at Queen’s University studying electrical engineering (computer option), Marc Lepine (nee Gamil Gharbi) entered the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and killed 14 women.
In these times, it’s tempting to argue about gender, politics and
philosophy — and hey, we probably should — but I’m going to leave
that for another day. I’d rather take a quiet moment to remember them
as women, as fellow engineering students and as human beings whose
lives were cut short.
Other perspectives:
...and by that, I mean, being completely ignorant of the larger world outside the U.S.…
Wednesday, August 7, 1991: A sunny day at Toronto’s CNE Grandstand, and what a lineup:…
The cover painting says it all.
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Good grief. Has it been that long? It seems like just a couple of years ago.
I can't tell whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.