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Comments:
Another geology dept. in trouble, this time at the University of Montreal,
home of paleontologists Pierre Lesperance, Bernard Mamet and Hans Hofman. Any
support out there?
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To: Terry Poulton@PALEO@GSC CALGARY, Wayne Bamber@PALEO@GSC
CALGARY, Colin McGregor@ISPG@GSC OTTAWA
From: Daniel Lebel@WREGION@GSC CALGARY
Date: Wednesday, March 27, 1996 at 2:50:31 pm MST
Attached: Headers.822
Comments:
Hi,
Here some more bad news for geology. Maybe we can help save this
group. Me, Benoit, Sylvie Pinard and Christian Viau (just to name a few) are
graduates of U de M.
Thanks,
Daniel Lebel
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To: <zhang%dmsperth.per.dms.csiro.au.tonyc@klfz.IscorLTD.co
.za>, <jcm@volcan.geotop.uqam.ca>,
<DON_B@geosci.lan.mcgill.ca>,
<ctg@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>,
<cruden@credit.erin.utoronto.ca>,
<JERZY%MINMET.Lan.McGill.CA.hhalls@credit.erin.utoronto
.ca>,
<walid%sajou.dstu.univ-montp2.fr.MZHOU@NICKEL.LAURENTIA
N.CA>, <fountain@uwyo.edu>,
<ERIC_M@geosci.lan.mcgill.ca>, <daniel@erdw.ethz.ch>,
<nick.bagd@uni-bayreuth.de>,
<ginger@pangea.Stanford.EDU>,
<bergantz@carson.u.washington.edu>,
<Marcia.Bjornerud@lawrence.edu>,
<paul@artemis.earth.monash.edu.au>,
<boudreau@geo.duke.edu>, <sbowring@mit.edu>,
<kbrodie@fs2.ge.man.ac.uk>, <jpb@erdw.ethz.ch>,
<caress@ldgo.columbia.edu>, <martin@erdw.ethz.ch>,
<cheny@ucs.orst.edu>, <jrc@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>,
<Steve_Constable@igppqm.ucsd.edu>,
<cooper@mspool2.liv.ac.uk>,
<jdelaney@ocean.washington.edu>, <lisa@erdw.ethz.ch>,
<md@kanaha.idbsu.edu>,
<druitt@opgc.univ-bpclermont.fr>,
<megydios@fox.cce.usp.br>,
<kenrique@dnsman.oce.orst.edu>, <marcia@iag.usp.br>,
and others...
From: jish@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Shaocheng Ji)
Date: Wednesday, March 27, 1996 at 2:00:19 pm EST
Attached: Headers.822
March 26, 1996
Dear Colleague,
Many of us in geology have either been threatened or already have
experienced downsizing brought on by bean-counters. On March 20, 1996,
the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences informed the geology
department here at the Universite de Montreal that as of June 1, 1996 the
department would be no more. Over the past few days an incredible effort
by professors, students and syndicate of the university and friends of the
d
epartment has brought to bear intense pressure on the administrators to
reconsider their decision. We are not out of the woods yet. We need all
the support we can muster to convince the powers that geology is a critical
and necessary discipline, that opportunities exist for the profession, and
that geology is an important component in the economy of a country with
respect to its resources, environment, and general well-being. We are
asking for your support, such that we may show our administrators the
dangers they are incurring by eliminating geology from their curriculum and
depriving students and society of basic knowledge about the earth on which
they live and depend.
To this end, your support for our effort to continue geology at
Universite de Montreal would be greatly appreciated. Support can be sent:
via e-mail to: jish@ere.umontreal.ca
via FAX: 514-343-5782
via mail: M. Michel Bouchard, Directeur
Departement de geologie
Universite de Montreal
C.P. 6128, Succursale centre-ville
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3J7.
Shaocheng Ji
Department of Geology,
University of Montreal,
C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-Ville,
Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7,
Canada
514-343-7698 (Phone)
514-343-5782 (Fax)
E-mail: jish@ere.umontreal.ca
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