LINGUIST List Special Issue: Note From Anthony Aristar

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LINGUIST List Special Issue: Note From Anthony Aristar 

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
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-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:39:20
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Note From Anthony Aristar

Dear Colleagues:

Yesterday the LINGUIST List was visited by our university 
Provost, and the students did us proud. Their presentations 
were so professional, so polished, and their commitment to 
the discipline so clear, that I think he was a little taken 
aback. He asked what made people become linguists, and 
someone answered, "Well, I think linguistics is sort of a 
calling..."

I loved that comment. I thought how right it was. That's 
why I became a linguist, and to realize that our students 
felt it too made me feel very good indeed.

The trouble is that to make their calling a reality requires 
that they be supported while they work their way through 
graduate school. And that's why I'm sending this message.

A few days ago we started the Advisors' Challenge. The LINGUIST 
List advisors challenged all of you to raise $8000 in 48 hours. 
If this goal is reached, the LINGUIST Advisors will donate the 
extra $2000 that would end the Fun Drive for this year.

We now have only 4 hours left, and we are nowhere near out goal. 
At this moment, we still need another $3671. This is a great 
deal to raise in such a short time.

We know that these are hard economic times, but there is a 
simple fact here: LINGUIST cannot continue its job unless it 
can pay the graduate students who run it. And that's why we 
have the Fund Drive. And those graduates are pretty neat 
people, people who love the discipline.

So I'm writing this letter. Please contribute now, and let's 
end the Fund Drive, so we can support these young people, 
who've been called to work in our discipline.

Anthony Aristar