the African-American printer

the lesson for today is:  "ask and yee shall receive."



Ya know, sometimes it's the little battles that matter.



About every 3-4 months we replace a printer somewhere in the office.  The

printers are always named after a dead architect. So all of the main ones

have been used already, Gaudi, Wright, Sullivan, etc...  So the last few

printers have been a woman, a japanese architect, and then we went back to

white guys for a while.  So I sent an e-mail to the powers that be and asked

them to consider having an African-American architect as their next printer

and even gave them two suggestions.  I figure the accounting and office

services departments should be represented along with the two black

architects in the office.



So sure enough, the next printer to get replaced was the biggest, baddest,

fastest, most cool, most slick, 42" wide color plotter.



and it's named after a black architect.  See the e-mail below.



sometimes you just have to ask for what you want.  It doesn't really mean

much in the larger scheme of things, but a little awareness never heart

anyone.



-c



CD of the moment: Blaze - "Spiritually Speaking"



-----Original Message-----

From:

Sent:	Monday, June 02, 2003 3:17 PM

To:	Chicago Staff

Subject:	New Color Plotter



There is a new color plotter called Cassell in the print room.  As of this

morning, you should have the Windows driver [Cassell-HP5500PS on voa-ch9]

and the Cassell.pc3 [for AutoCAD] files installed on your computer.



Please contact me if you do not have these plotters after restarting your

computer.





Albert I. Cassell was one of the most successful African-American

Architects.  He is most famous for his structural & architectural

contributions to Tuskegee Institute and Howard University.  A bio can be

found here:



http://architecture.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howard.edu%2Flibrary%2FCassell%2FFounders.htm%23Albert%2520I.%2520Cassell