20.1143, 2: Good Reasons to Donate

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LINGUIST List: Vol-20-1143. Sun Mar 29 2009. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 20.1143, 2: Good Reasons to Donate

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1)
Date: 29-Mar-2009
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Letter from Helen Aristar-Dry
2)
Date: 29-Mar-2009
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Cascadilla Press Contest Started! Donate to Win!

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:23:10
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Letter from Helen Aristar-Dry

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Dear LINGUIST Subscribers,

The LINGUIST List Fund Drive isn't going well this year.   
Normally we collect about $2,000 per day in the first 10 
days of the Drive; this year, after 13 days of earnest 
effort on the part of our students, we have collected 
only $16,400 - that's almost $10,000 less than what we need 
just to be on par with previous years' donation. 
Of course, we expected some difficulty.  With the economic 
news so grim, it is very hard to donate to anything with 
wholehearted enthusiasm.    

This year, when I contemplate donating to the causes 
that I usually support, I hesitate, feeling that I need 
a really good reason,  just to counter all the voices, 
internal and external,  that seem to be urging frugality.   
So let me try to give you a good reason-actually, two good 
reasons-for donating to LINGUIST List.   The first is 
investment in  your own professional life,  and the second 
is investment in the kind of students who represent the 
future of the discipline.

1. Profession:  for nearly 20 years now, LL has brought you 
up-to-date information about linguistics calls, conferences, 
jobs, books, articles, dissertations, projects, funding 
sources, and so on and on.  It has provided services 
like NoticeBoard, Ask-A-Linguist, hosting and archiving of 
linguistics discussion lists, hosting of language-related 
websites and of the OLAC search engine, and-new this year
-- the Student Internships Register , the Student Portal, 
and Easy Abs, a free abstracts submission and review facility.  

Now, of course, there are ways we could improve, and perhaps 
there are other sites that perform  one or more of these 
functions better than we do.  But there is an advantage to 
having a central clearinghouse for information relating to 
what I might call the 'administrative infrastructure' of 
the discipline.  If LL were to disappear this year because 
of lack of support, either it would have to be reinvented 
later somewhere else or busy professionals like yourself 
would have to get used to collecting such information on 
your own from scattered sources.   I am old enough to 
remember the bad old days when we all wasted an inordinate 
amount of time just finding out what jobs and conferences 
were available.   And it cost money as well as time 
(remember paying for a printed jobs bulletin?).  

LINGUIST now does all that information-gathering for you.  
We have already undertaken the publicity efforts needed to 
make employers, editors, and organizers centralize their 
posting;  we have developed the systems necessary to 
categorize their announcements by subfield and language, 
and to cross-reference people, information, and services. 
Via two NSF-funded projects, we are trying to provide you 
with innovative mapping and genetic tree interfaces to all 
our language-relevant information.  Why let LINGUIST die 
and later start over somewhere else?  Doesn't it make 'good 
investment sense' to help sustain LINGUIST instead?

2. Students: for nearly 20 years, LL has also been supporting 
outstanding students who go on to become practicing linguists.  
Eastern Michigan University, where LL is situated, has no 
doctoral program in linguistics, but-thanks to your donations 
and support - in the past 18 years, LINGUIST has been able to 
fund the M.A. degrees of over 100 highly talented students 
from all over the world.  Over half of these 'LL alums' have 
entered a top Ph.D. program in linguistics either in the US 
or abroad.  But many -if not most - of these would never 
have been able to advance past the B.A., had it not been for 
your support.   

These students are bright, responsible, eager to learn, and 
extraordinarily dedicated.  If you haven't done so already, 
read some of the letters that they have been writing during 
Fund Drive.  You will see the diversity of their backgrounds, 
how much they feel they are learning at LL, how intent they 
are on doing the best job possible, and how grateful they 
are for the support that is making their education possible. 
See, for example, 
http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-1089.html#1 
http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-1031.html#1
http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-1059.html#1
http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-1035.html#1
http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-995.html#1

Please support them again this year.  

I called my two reasons for donating to LINGUIST 'investments'
because that is what I think they are:  money donated now will 
yield future returns.  But nowhere is that clearer to me than 
in the contribution you can make to the support of these great 
linguistics students.  Unlike other investments, this one is a 
sure thing:  if you fund their M.A.'s , they will go on to 
advanced degrees or careers in linguistics; and the discipline 
will profit for many  years to come.

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Yours sincerely,

-Helen

Helen Aristar-Dry
LINGUIST Moderator
Prof. of Linguistics, EMU 

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:23:14
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Cascadilla Press Contest Started! Donate to Win!

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Dear Subscribers,

We have exciting news! Donate now to get an extra
prize!
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Cascadilla Press is bringing you a new contest!
Donate the most between 12am and 10am (Eastern Time)
and be the winner of a title offered by Cascadilla
Press! During this period of time, we will be
tracking the donor who contributes the most. If you
are the one, you will be able to choose from one of
the titles offered by Cascadilla Press.

View the titles for this contest at:
http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2009/prizes/current-donate-most-prizes.cfm

Do not miss this chance to win a great book while
contributing to LINGUIST. All your donations go
straight to support the education of the gra students
who make LINGUIST possible. Help us provide this 
support to them and a great service to the whole
linguistics community!

Donate now at:
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