Speaking of the NHL controversy, there's this bizzare kerfluffle involving the visitor's locker room at Nile Kinnick stadium. [link]

The pink visitors' locker room at the University of Iowa's stadium is making some people see red.

Several professors and students joined the call Tuesday for the athletic department to do away with the pink showers, carpeting and lockers, a decades-long Hawkeye football tradition.

Critics say the use of pink demeans women, perpetuates offensive stereotypes about women and homosexuality, and puts the university in the uncomfortable position of tacitly supporting those messages.

''I want the locker room gone,'' law school professor Jill Gaulding told a university committee studying the athletic department's compliance with NCAA standards, including gender equity.

For decades, visiting football teams playing at Kinnick Stadium have dressed and showered in the pink locker room. The tradition was started by former Iowa coach Hayden Fry, a psychology major who said pink had a calming and passive effect on people.

The CommanderBond.net site claimed that Sony executives will be meeting with Eon Productions execs next week in London, where the decision will be made. It said that while Pierce Brosnan had been removed from the running months ago, he now not only is being considered to star in the 21st Bond film, but that he is regarded as the frontrunner. "A senior Sony executive has told a member of the Casino Royale production team that the new Bond will 'probably' be Pierce Brosnan," the website said.

I used to use MSAccess and I wish I could help but my MSAccess skills are rusty. Well, not so much rusty as the neurons have completely rusted out and fallen off my brain like an old tailpipe.

"A senior Sony executive has told a member of the Casino Royale production team that the new Bond will 'probably' be Pierce Brosnan," the website said.

For what value of "new", exactly?

God, people are stupid.

I figured out a way to make a report do it, but that makes it in the least useful format possible, and for some reason I can't even export it to Excel to make it at all more useful. Ffffuck.

IKEA opened its second Chicago-area store today in Bolingbrook (Chicago Tribune reg req'd), and some guy flew in and camped out front for the past 15 days to be the first person in. He did this knowing that the company has a history of rewarding the first customers at a new store, and sure enough, he got a $3000 gift certificate.

BTW, he didn't buy anything today.

I'm suprised that Access doesn't have an aggregate function for median. You'd think that would be really useful.

Wouldn't you? Since according to my Google search this question has been being asked at least since Access 97?

Guess I picked the wrong week to stop taking amphetamines.

Here's the Knowledge Base article on the Median, but you probably already have it: [link]

tommyrot, the problem is that I need the data divided by sex, department, degree, and title and then I need the median of the data for each group.

I asked my boss about this. The only non-code way he could think of would be to have a query where you sort and group by sex, department, degree, and title, then within those groupings you would do a count and divide that by two (let's say that = X), then do a subquery to find the Top X records of that grouping, sorted in descending order, and then use the First to find the particular record that would be the median. That makes my head hurt, but if I get a sec. I'll try to see if that would work.

I think code would be easier. How many records are you talking about, anyway?

You could also use Excel to attach to the Access table/query and then use the proper Excep functions to get the median. I don't know if this would get around the issue of the data being too big for Excel or not....