[aaus-list] moderation

[Alexandra Hrycak]

Dear colleagues,

I am grateful to Prof. Pylypiuk for her support and want to reiterate: 
posters who wish to post on non-AAUS topics should do so through the 
brama list: politics at brama.com

If we receive further posts of an objectionable nature (in particular, 
personal attacks, but also off topic discussions), I will have to take 
the step of closing the AAUS list temporarily while I find a moderator 
and we go through the difficult task of determining how to proceed 
regarding who will remain subscribed. If I make this move, the list 
might need to remain closed for a long time, perhaps even until the 
AAASS meetings in November. This will make our association's work 
considerably harder, as we need to use the AAUS list to circulate 
information on our business.

A further question regards membership in AAUS. The AAUS list has been 
taken over by discussions mainly engaged in by non-members - this list 
was developed by our association for its business. Recently, it has been 
hijacked by non members. If you would like to join the AAUS list, please 
contact me and I will help you to join.

I very much regret having to write this e-mail and do not want to take 
steps in the direction of closing the AAUS list to nonmembers. However, 
an increasing number of the members of the AAUS are requesting that we 
remove them from the list or else, remove nonmembers from the list, so I 
am being put in a difficult position.

  Let me reiterate: non-academic, political posters should post on the 
brama politics list. Remain respectful and conduct personal debates off 
list.

Regards,

Alexandra Hrycak, President (AAUS)



Natalia Pylypiuk wrote:
> Dear Colleagues and All subscribers to the AAUS list,
> 
> I thank my colleague, Professor Hrycak for this message.
> 
> I also wish to note that there are many members of the AAUS who are NOT 
> of Ukrainian descent.
> What brings us together in the association is an intellectual commitment 
> to the study of
> (in alphabetical order) Ukrainian Folklore, Geography, History, 
> Language, Linguistics, Literature, Political Science,
> Religious communities, Sociology, scientific developments, Women's 
> Studies, etc., etc.
> 
> Therefore the question whether we put being Ukrainian before being 
> scholars is completely  irrelevant, just as whether we
> will vote for Mr. McCain or Mr. Obama.  I find it troubling when 
> Professor Szporluk , a prominent historian and
> member of the AAUS,  is sent a message, indicating how to sign off the 
> AAUS list, just because he has correctly
> protested against postings that ought to be addressed to another list.
> 
> I am against censorship of all kinds.  But the appropriate forum for 
> discussing many of the recent topics is
> *Ukrainian politics in the broadest sense,* not the AAUS list.  I would 
> hope, however, that the snide tone and
> argumentum ad hominem is not employed in either list.
> 
> Regards,
> N. Pylypiuk
> 
> Prof. Natalia Pylypiuk, PhD
> Modern Languages & Cultural Studies  [www.mlcs.ca]
> University of Alberta
> 
> On 11-Sep-08, at 8:37 PM, Alexandra Hrycak wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>
>> **************************
>>
>> Alexandra Hrycak
>> Associate Professor
>> Department of Sociology
>> Reed College
>> 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
>> Portland, Oregon 97202-8199
>>
>>
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Alexandra Hrycak
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, Oregon 97202-8199


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