[aaus-list] moderation

[Alexandra Hrycak]

Dear Colleagues,

I appreciate the efforts several of you have made to police the list and 
  to introduce norms of usage, in particular I appreciate that several 
of you have started identifying yourself. However, the tone of several 
recent posts has been derisive and some posts are off topic. I have 
received a number of emails asking that I intervene on both sides of 
various debates. I wish to reiterate what our colleague Prof. Pylypiuk 
notes, which is that political posts are welcome on the brama politics 
list serve, called *Ukrainian politics in the broadest sense* and its 
address is:
politics at brama.com

  I strongly urge you all to stick to our rules, in particular I remind 
you that this is a list for Ukrainian studies and that we post 
information relevant to academic studies of Ukraine. If there is a 
series of news articles that you would like a reaction to, please list 
them in a single e-mail.

Finally, list members, when you address any remarks you have to posters, 
please make your remarks respectful. If there is a particular individual 
you wish to engage in a debate or you wish to solicit further views 
from, do this *off list*. Again, I wish to commend several of you for 
adhering to a moderate tone and for providing useful information, both 
to me off line and to others on line.

-- Thank you,  Alexandra Hrycak, AAUS President

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Alexandra Hrycak
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, Oregon 97202-8199


E-mail: hrycak at reed.edu		
Telephone: 503-517-7483 		
Fax: 503-777-7776 		
Personal web page: http://academic.reed.edu/sociology/faculty/hrycak/