He is a Smart Ass!!

I am a bit too old to go back to school, but I am thinking about applying to be a faculty member of one of those 57 schools mentioned below.......or maybe joining their custodial building maintenance staff.

Anyhow, this guy is definitely a "smart ass"!!

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PUBLICATION: GLOBE AND MAIL
DATE: 2007.12.06
PAGE: L5 (ILLUS)
BYLINE: KEITH O'BRIEN
SECTION: Globe Life

STUDENT EXCHANGE: TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO BOY HAS GONE BEFORE At all-girls school, he's 1 in 2,300

KEITH O'BRIEN New York Times News Service WELLESLEY, MASS.
To many women, he is simply "the boy." They know who he is, even if they don't know his name. They know his story, even if they've never spoken to him.

In the small, all-female world of Wellesley College in Massachusetts, Mohammad Usman is literally a man among women - about 2,300 women.

Mr. Usman, 19, is the only man attending the college this fall.
"A lot of people don't know his name, really," said Johanna Peace, editor-in-chief of the student newspaper. "If they see him, they'll say, 'Oh - there's the boy.' " The boy in question has been living in a campus dormitory since September, showering in his private bathroom, and perhaps predictably becoming something of a folk hero among his male friends.

But do not get the wrong idea: Wellesley College, where alumni include presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, is not allowing men to become full-time students. Mr. Usman, who grew up in New York, came to Wellesley on a semester-long exchange program, and he maintains that his motives for being here are pure.

He wanted to come for the education. (And the women.) He was looking forward to living near Boston. (And lots of women.) To him, this was the chance of a lifetime.

"I thought it would be really fascinating to be the only male at an all-women's college," said Mr. Usman, a student at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. There are 57 women's colleges in Canada and the United States that are part of the Women's College Coalition, including Brescia University College at the University of Western Ontario in London.

Under an agreement among 11 New England institutions, students can apply to spend a semester at another school. Men have attended Wellesley via the exchange program in the past, although not recently, said Jennifer Thomas-Starck, who oversees the program at Wellesley.

Early on, Mr. Usman said, a campus police officer questioned whether he was actually a student. "The look on his face was just like, 'Yeah, okay, buddy,' " he recalled.

"Most guys who are on campus are somebody's boyfriend," said Amy Goodman, a student. "So when there's a guy who doesn't have anybody and who's going to an all-girls school, it's going to make people go, 'Oh, who is this person?' " Female students have wondered about Mr. Usman's motives. But some say he has blended in among them. In class, he often sits up front, and he has made plenty of female friends.

"Men are welcome," said Wilbur Rich, a political science professor at Wellesley. "If you don't mind being around very, very bright women, it's no problem." That is not an issue for Mr. Usman, who said he has no girlfriend.

He is very attracted to intelligent women, he said, and has enjoyed the attention from his classmates.