Submitted to Conference Meeting
April 2, 2004 at Molloy
First, we should like, editorially speaking, to thank the Conference
for the flowers and fruit it sent to us after our recent open-heart
surgery.
By the time of the operation, we had already done enough work on
the winter 2004 issue to make us want not to lose it, although
not enough work for the usual 12-page issue. We settled under duress
for an 8-page issue incorporating the items we had already finished
working on, and by a bit of scootching around, as they say at University
Hospital, were able to send off the issue to the Executive Director
and the printer in February. This was achieved at a cost: we had
to do without material already submitted; without, for instance,
anything having to do with the agitation in some quarters of the
nation for a so-called
"Academic Bill of Rights" and the complaint of some Republican students
at Wells College that their group was denied student activity funds; and we
mistakenly republished (we apologize) an earlier statement by Kathleen Maurer
Smith for candidacy for Member-at-Large on the Conference's Executive Committee.
If the Conference feels the need, it might be possible to get out
another 8-page issue this spring. It may be that it would suffice
to put timely items on the Conference's website; e.g., more information
about the Conference¹s Spring Meeting and the national AAUP
meeting, more AAUP advice and inspiration. The shortcoming in so
doing would be that seemingly few people consult our website. So
reports Douglas Anderson, who so ably and tastefully does the actual
putting on of material. Perhaps the website needs more publicizing;
it does seem worth having for its usefulness for the dedicated
and its potential for increasing their number. It doesn't cost
much. Anderson would like to rework its format over the summer,
and include more items. It would be appropriate, we think, to have
a discussion at the Spring Meeting of the website, present and
future.
John D. Diehl
Editor, New York Academe
jdiehl1@twcny.rr.com
last update: March 28, 2004
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