Also, if one was homeschooled there will not be a "high school mascot".

-----Original Message-----
From: Feminist ethics and social theory [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nancy J. Holland
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:15 AM
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Subject: Re: APA Login Screen

Uh, problem with "high school mascot".  Mine was (Native American)
"Warriors".  Undergrad school was worse--"Indians".  I don't want to
be identified with that kind of racism anywhere.  N.

>>> Azzurra Crispino <[log in to unmask]> 5/19/2008 11:44 PM >>>
Dear FEAST,

I wrote to David Schrader, and this is what he had to say.  I'm sure 

he won't mind my forwarding it to you:

> Thank you for your note.  Some conversation on this has already  
> been forwarded to me.  Right now the issue of security question is 

> arising in the context of our changeover to our new on-line  
> system.  As I have been told by staff, the “mother’s maiden
name”  
> question has been in use for years and is thus the one in our  
> current membership database.  Once the new system is fully up and 

> running Nikki Szymanski, our Computing Coordinator, will work with 

> Janet Sample, our Membership Coordinator, to rectify this issue.  I
 
> surely appreciate your concerns, most immediately as a security  
> concern as you have noted.  We will plan to move to other forms of 

> security question, while recognizing that we have no choice but to 

> work from the current membership database as a starting point.   
> Please bear with us in this process as we work to make the  
> necessary changes in our system.
>

I'm glad to see that people are asking fathers' first names, but I  
can see how that might be... awkward in some situations.  I like High
 
School mascot as a security question, personally.

Cheers,

Azzurra