[CW-Grad] uc walk out
cwhitney
chuck.whitney at ucr.edu
Mon Sep 14 12:44:20 PDT 2009
And while we're all in high dudgeon, please let me pass this along --
Mike D forwarded it to me:
D. Charles (Chuck) Whitney
Office: Department of Creative Writing, 4159 INTS, UC Riverside,
Riverside CA 92521 / 951.827.6076 FAX 951.827.3619
Home: 6170 Kirk St., Riverside CA 92506 / 951.781.3497
On Sep 14, 2009, at 12:36 PM, cwhitney wrote:
> Stephanie: Thanks. Very eloquent.
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> D. Charles (Chuck) Whitney
> Office: Department of Creative Writing, 4159 INTS, UC Riverside,
> Riverside CA 92521 / 951.827.6076 FAX 951.827.3619
> Home: 6170 Kirk St., Riverside CA 92506 / 951.781.3497
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> On Sep 14, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Stephanie Hammer wrote:
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>> Hi everyone -- I just sent this message to the crwt list and it
>> bounced back. So I'm resending. thanks! sh
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>> From: Stephanie Hammer <hamm at ucr.edu>
>> Date: September 14, 2009 11:03:29 AM PDT
>> To: "D Charles Whitney" <chuck.whitney at ucr.edu>, CWFacMtg-
>> List at ucr.edu
>> Subject: uc walk out
>>
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>> Dear Chuck and all --
>>
>> I am on sabbatical this quarter, but I am supporting the walk out
>> and I want to say why. This letter is a version of what I wrote to
>> my home department in Comparative Literature.
>>
>> Having spent the bulk of my career in the UC system, I am pretty
>> dismayed by what I see as a progressive downgrading of our
>> incredible university system -- a downgrading that has been going
>> on for years, and which is culminating now in these budget cuts.
>>
>> As someone who has worked in retail and the hotel business, and as
>> the child of Republicans (!) I totally get that tough budget
>> decisions need to be made. What I find inexcusable is how faculty
>> have been shut out of these decisions on all campuses, and that the
>> overall budget remains a mystery to most, including our own Dean.
>> Even stockholders know more about a corporation's budget than we do
>> (unless your corporation is run by Madoff). Not only is our
>> university being run like a company -- it's being run like a badly-
>> run company.
>>
>> If you go to the UC walk out letter, you will see that the demands
>> are extremely reasonable.
>>
>> http://ucfacultywalkout.com/
>>
>> The letter asks for transparency regarding the budget (to which, by
>> the way, we are entitled as a self-governing body), a roll back of
>> any furlough for employees making $40,000. or less, and faculty
>> participation in discussions on where to cut.
>>
>> So, to quote my Reagan-loving father, "this is no hippy
>> uprising" (which some folks may find disappointing). This is a
>> last-ditch effort to call public attention to the ways in which our
>> beloved University is being demolished.
>>
>> BUT, I think Chuck is absolutely right when he says that students
>> and staff are the ones most impacted by what is happening. This is
>> why, in my humble opinion, it is absolutely CRUCIAL for students to
>> take part in the walk out. I would urge you to urge students in
>> the strongest possible terms (I am doing this already on Facebook
>> and ilearn) to educate themselves about the 30% price hike in
>> tuition and other issues so that they can make an informed decision
>> about what they themselves want to do. This is, after all, one of
>> the advantages of being a citizen in a democracy. You get to
>> choose, when and how and whether, to protest.
>>
>> And if you MUST meet your kids on the 24th, as artists and
>> intellectuals, you have a unique opportunity to educate students
>> about an actual historical moment. Take your kids out of the
>> classroom, and have them write about what they see, conduct
>> interviews with participants on both sides, and use the craft of
>> writing to witness and analyze.
>>
>> Thanks for reading and happy fall everyone --
>>
>> Stephanie H
>>
>> Stephanie Hammer
>> Comparative Literature and Creative Writing
>> UC Riverside
>> Riverside, CA 92521
>>
>> "A major irritation, a most stern and ruthless activity without
>> question or answer, a three-card trick, a necessity. A necessity to
>> what? The necessity to _say_." Pinter on Beckett.
>>
>>
>> ---- Original message ----
>>> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:32:55 -0700
>>> From: D Charles Whitney <chuck.whitney at ucr.edu>
>>> Subject: Faculty meeting POSTPONED
>>> To: CWFacMtg-List at ucr.edu
>>>
>>> A number of faculty members have asked that the
>>> Sept. 24 facultty meeting be postponed for a week in
>>> view of the UC-wide protest on that day. We will do
>>> so; I have been reluctant to postpone largely
>>> because we have a very heavy academic personnel
>>> workload this fall, but we will simply work harder
>>> and faster - and later.
>>> If you plan on NOT meeting Sept. 24 classes as part
>>> of the work action, I would very much appreciate
>>> your emailing students in your classes to let them
>>> know you do not intend to meet classes and to
>>> explain why.
>>> I will meet my Thursday class: I'm certainly
>>> sympathetic to the aims of the organizers, and I
>>> respect those of you who are participating in the
>>> work action, but I believe faculty are the group
>>> (except for administrators) least impacted by budget
>>> cuts -- students and staff are much moreso - and I
>>> fear that a walkout sends the wrong political
>>> message.
>>>
>>> D Charles Whitney, Professor and Chair
>>> Department of Creative Writing, 4119 INTS
>>> U of California, Riverside CA 92521
>>> 951.827.6076 FAX 951.827.3619
>>
>>
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