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E-mail helps faculty union communicate The Minnesota Daily (U. of Minnesota) (U-WIRE) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — The last time university faculty members voted to form a union, they sat at the same tables and discussed the issues over lunch at the Campus Club in Coffman Memorial Union. That was in 1981. Now, fewer faculty members have time to stop by the cafeteria, and another means of communication is used to mobi lize faculty unionization. The obvious choice is e-mail, said Thomas Walsh, University Fac ulty Alliance member and physics professor. “To tell you the truth, I honestly didn’t expect this to work as well as it has,” Walsh said. The University Faculty Alliance uses e-mail to send meeting notices, updates and analyses of proposed tenure revisions to faculty members who subscribe to a list server. Walsh said e-mail allowed union members to quickly reach more people than they could by phone or regular mail. “This is a kind of new way of communicating information to people,” Walsh said. “It permits you, if you’re responsible, to trans mit factual information where pre viously that would be difficult. “I think the amount of miscom munication can actually be reduced this way.” We professors start talks on tenure study The Yale Daily News (Yale U.) (U-WIRE) NEW HAVEN, Conn. — For Yale’s junior faculty, a glimmer of hope has appeared on the horizon. Now that statistics chairman John Hartigan has released the re sults of his commission’s year-long study of Yale’s beleaguered tenure system, faculty members will finally have a chance to debate the group’s findings. Hartigan’s report has spawned a series of three faculty meetings spe cifically geared to discussion of the tenure system, the first of which began Thursday. Professors said Wednesday they had a lukewarm response to die re port and complained it did not go far enough in suggesting ways to restructure the much reviled system. “I might have been receptive to even more radical proposals, but there are some desirable changes still in there,” said Rogers Smith, a political science professor. Although Hartigan’s report steered away from the topic of ten ure criteria, potential participants in Thursday’s discussion said they an ticipate a fight over the procedures the junior faculty must follow to gain the coveted security of a ten ured position. Hartigan would not delve into the specifics of possible hot topics but agreed that sparks might fly in the near future. “There are some proposals that aren’t minor and could be consid ered even a little controversial, but that’s pretty much all I can men tion,” he said. In addition to protests surround ing tenure criteria, the Hartigan report’s suggestions about reducing the length of the tenure process has already drawn fire from some fac ulty members. Leon Platinga, director of the Division of Humanities, criticized the report’s solution to the bureau cratic handling of letters of inquiry, which junior faculty members must submit to the administration to gauge their tenure prospects. “The principle about procedure is about how long and cumbersome it is,” Platinga said. “I don’t know if the proposal that eliminates the first stage of writing letters of in quiry actually saves us any time.” Pumpkin causes fire at K-State fraternity The Collegian (Kansas State U.) (U-WIRE) MANHATTAN, Kan. — A Wednesday afternoon fire caused $11,000 damage at the Phi Gamma Delta house. Battalion Chief Jerry Snyder of the Manhattan Fire Department said the fire was caused by a plastic pumpkin on top of a halogen floor lamp that melted onto a couch, ig niting the couch. Jason Graves, senior in manage ment information systems and Fiji president, said he came home after the fire department had arrived. He was informed of the fire by other members. Snyder estimated the fire burned for 20 to 30 minutes before a Fiji member smelled the smoke in one of the rooms and called the fire de partment. The room was empty at the time of the fire. Firefighters used exhaust fans and a positive pressure fan to clear the smoke out of the house. The room, where five Fiji mem bers kept their belongings, sustained smoke and heat damage. The struc tural damage was estimated at $3,500, and damage to contents of the room was estimated at $7,500. Shooting victim says he wants to forget attack at Penn State The Collegian (Pennsylvania State U.) 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