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Originally posted by: Robert Evans
"Last night I was able to get through two more letters of the alphabet (C&D) of the online listing of members of the Renaissance Society of America.  I wrote only to those with an expressed interest in literature, adding at least another fifty names to the approximately seventy covered in the A&B list.  So far the response to this campaign has been nothing but positive.  No one has written to complain about an unsolicited e-mail; instead, people have contacted me to express shock and dismay at what is happening at USM and have promised to write to the appropriate folks in MS.  I urge faculty in disciplines other than literature who read this board to try to contact people in their own professional associations, so that when the IHL has to render its decision, it will know that the eyes of the nation (and indeed the world) are watching."

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Excellent work, excellent suggestion.