Background: back on December 6, 1989 I had just entered the Ph.D. program at McMaster and we heard of the 'Montreal Massacre', at L'Ecole Polytechnique ... among the pieces marking the sad event, CityTV has reprinted the gunman's suicide note which ends thusly and includes some ClassCon which I had never been aware of (such as it is):

"Thus, the other day, people were honouring the Canadian men and women who fought at the frontlines during the world wars. How does this sit with the fact that women were not authorized to go to the frontline at the time??? Will we hear of Caesar's female legions and female galley slaves who of course took up 50 per cent of history's ranks, although they never existed? A real Casus Belli.

"Sorry for this too brief letter. [List of 19 women he wanted to kill] nearly died today. The lack of time (because I started too late) has allowed those radical feminists to survive. Alea Jacta EST.

(The final Latin phrase quotes Julius Caesar and should have read "lacta alea est" - translated as "the die is cast.")

The bracketed part is some editorial comment by the CityTV folk ...