Jesse Donahue
Working with Sid, Nancy, and Kay on the Citizen Participation Study was one of the most amazing experiences in my life. I learned a huge amount about how these large projects are done, which was tremendously helpful in understanding other work in the field. More importantly, however, I had a wonderful time learning from the 3 of you about life as a professor. I still remember conversations that we had during meetings about the project that were off the subject, but highly educational as well. One of my favorites when I think about Sid, was our conversation about sexual harassment that we had at one of the meetings about the survey. Somehow we got talking about faculty/student relationships. Sid said that he had been talking to his fellow male professors about sexual harassment and I offered that a young econ professor had asked me out when I was an undergraduate at University California, Santa Cruz. I had turned this guy down repeatedly. So Sid's question to me was this: What did you think about him? And I said that I thought he was pathetic. And Sid said in this animated voice with a hand gesture as well: "Exactly: that's what I told them. They think you're pathetic!"
