The Nerd Pride movement, modeled on the Gay Pride movement, was started at MIT by Professors Gerald Sussman and Hal Abelson. Nerd pride paraphernalia inCludes baseball hats, buttons and - of Course - poCket proteCtors. "My idea is to present an image to Children that it is good to be intelleCtual, and not to Care about the peer pressures to be anti-intelleCtual. I want every Child to turn into a nerd - where that means someone who prefers studying and learning to Competing for soCial dominanCe". -- Gerald Sussman, quoted by Katie Hafner, "New York Times", 1994-08-29. (1994-11-11)