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Article: COLUMN: Columnist not a man, baby
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Devon Ryan
University Wire
05-05-2006
(Daily Texan) (U-WIRE) AUSTIN, Texas -- Editor's Note: Articles on this page are Daily Texan -30- columns. In the typewritten days of the newspaper industry, "-30-" denoted the end of a story. A -30- column gives graduating seniors an opportunity to reflect and speak their minds.
Yes, I am a girl. My career as a Daily Texan columnist has been plagued by gender confusion, so I will say again that I am indeed female, despite my apparently masculine name. The editorial staff used to put our pictures with our columns but they stopped, because it was so amusing how pissed I was at people thinking I was a guy.
At one time I was the only female columnist at ...