resistance is not futile...

[Keith Goeringer]

Seelangers:

The following message was forwarded to students in my department by our
grad assistant.  I thought SEELANGS would be an appropriate vehicle for
spreading word of this to other campuses.  (While it is a US-specific
problem, perhaps those in other countries either know people to whom they
could forward it, or have experience in US education themselves...)

If professors and instructors would forward this to their students, it
should make some impact in DC.  Maybe.

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>>> Dear Friends-
>>>
>>> As some of you may know Congressional republicans are attempting to cut
>>> federal funding of student aid (both grad and undergrad).  Senator
>>> Kennedy has made noises about fillibustering such cuts.  However, in
>>> order to do so, he needs stories, etc. to read on the Senate floor (they
>>> can't read the phonebook anymore).  So please, email the Senator's office
>>> to:
>>>
>>> (1) register your opposition to any cuts in federal funding of student
>>> aid, and
>>>
>>> (2) to explain how such cuts would affect (or would have affected you if
>>> you are no longer in school).
>>>
>>> The person I spoke to in Kennedy's office
>>> said that they were especially interested in vivid, personal stories that
>>> could be read into the Senate record.  We are intelligent, literate
>>> people, and we, of all people, should be able to provide the sorts of
>>> anecdotes that Kennedy is looking for.  So let's show those darn
>>> republicans what we can do when we get our collective dander up.
>>>
>>> The address is:  studentaid at kennedy.senate.gov
>>>
>>>
>>> ps feel free to forward this message to other students, especially those
>>> at other universities.  It's important that people see this is a large,
>>> widespread movment.
>>>
>>> Remember:  education is not, and ought not be, a prequiste of the rich.

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Sorry for the blatant political skew on this -- I didn't write it, I'm
just spreading the word.

Thanks,
Keith Goeringer
UC Berkeley