LINGUIST List Special Issue: Help: Advisors' Challenge: $3115 and 29 Hours Left!

Wed Apr 11 00:04:10 UTC 2007

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>

Reviews: Laura Welcher, Rosetta Project  
       <reviews at linguistlist.org> 

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The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, 
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Advisors' Challenge 2007: Raise $8000 in 48 hours and the LINGUIST Advisors 
will donate an extra $2000!
If you have not donated, please visit http://linguistlist.org/donate.html
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Current Top 5 Schools in LL Grad School Challenge:
1. Stanford University   	                $1970
2. University of Massachusetts at Amherst 	$1747
3. University of Washington 	                $1434
4. University of Maryland                        $843
5. New York University                           $830
To see the full list, go to: http://linguistlist.org/donation/fund-drive2007/allschools.cfm

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-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:42:29
From:  linguist <linguist at linguistlist.org>
Subject: Australian Heritage: A Message from Anthony Aristar 

Dear Colleagues,

In 1990 LINGUIST List was founded at the University of Western
Australia. It was not an easy thing to do in those days: the only
machine I had access to was a Unix machine, and there was no Listserv
software available for Unix. But with the help of a generous
department and a helpful graduate student, I managed to get a (rather
slow) piece of Unix mailing software running, and LINGUIST was born.

So much has changed since then. LINGUIST is still a mailing list, but
it's evolved into much more now. It runs a huge web-site, something
hardly conceived of in those days. And it has been working for years
towards producing the infrastructure that our discipline needs so
badly in the world of the Internet. This is one reason why we've had
to get so much bigger than we ever intended. This work needs lots of
work-hours! And this is why we are having our annual fund-drive.

But we've never forgotten our origins, or the debt we owe to Australia
and the people in Perth who helped us get started. Where once we had
only a few subscribers in Australia, we now have hundreds: there are
415 subscribers from Australia regularly reading the list, in one form
or another: 257 on LINGUIST and 158 on LINGLITE.

So far we've had 9 donors from Australia, which is a little under 2.2%
of the subscribers. I'd love to see more donors, since we began
there, but I also know how difficult it can be to contribute to an
organization that perhaps now seems rather remote, situated as
LINGUIST now is in the USA. But the fact is that we are not an
American institution. We did not start here, and so we have always
seen ourselves as belonging to the world. Perhaps if you see that this
is what we really are, you might consider donating just a little more,
so that we can make sure that LINGUIST remains what it always has
been, free and the property of all linguists anywhere.

Sincerely,
Anthony Aristar 

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