boosting enrollments for fall '96

[Ernest Scatton]

Hairy linguists? Who has Ms. Gerhart been associating with? Most of us
linguists here are practically bald.

ES

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On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Genevra Gerhart wrote:

> Yeay, list!
> Rah, rah, rah, list!
>
> This is the topic that really deserves discussion.  It's a realization
> and recognition of the fact that (a) without students, we will
> disappear; and (b) there's a willingness to do something about it.  The
> AATSEEL web page could be used for preserving specific suggestions on
> getting students, and then keeping them, at least for a while.
>
> Furthermore, I would like to promote the notion that one learns Russian
> not to grow up to be a big hairy critical linguist, but perhaps a
> geographer more comfortably mapping southern Siberia; or a
> business"person" arranging, with somewhat greater ease,
> telecommunications to Archangel; or perhaps a doctor who can more
> effectively suggest treatments for survivors--of all sorts.  Russian
> should be like Coke -- it goes better with everything.  Anybody checked
> into Coke stock lately?
> --
> Genevra Gerhart                         http://www.wolfe.net/~ggerhart/
>
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>