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To: Amy J who wrote (181394)	5/28/2005 3:30:50 PM
From: GVTucker	Respond to of 186894

Amy, RE: You actually missed the underlying theme in my post where I said: the "image" of stupidity is popular and is this our new America? It's not really popular to be an engineer anymore. This image has to be addressed, otherwise people will gravitate away from it. In a nutshell, America admires sports heros, Congress talks about steroids, meanwhile they let the image of engineering go down the tubes. It's not that way in other countries. It reflects poorly on the leadership of this country. I'd start an initiative to change this badly beaten image by attacking the image of athletes thru the power of money that sports has, by taxing all sport tickets with a 100% tax until that revenue is dinged into a bad image. Additionally, the only recent decent movie engineers ever were granted from Hollywood was Office Space - where's the initiative to get more hightech stars in movies? Until hightech is mentioned as a subliminal positive in Hollywood movies, we're going to keep getting a negative image. It says a lot when Congress is focused on athletes' steroids and so-called entertainers like Janet Jackson, rather than larger priorities. I don't ever recall when being an engineer was popular, or being an athlete or actor was unpopular. You've got quite the uphill climb.