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CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES TO ALL GRADUANDS
from the journal that deplores the irrationality of degree classification
Issue No 302 Monday 28 June 1999
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MENU
Minutes, Amendments, Matters arising
1. Inkytext Administrator of the Year 1999: Award Ceremony
2. News: Chris Holmes, Michael Wheeler, New Bowland principal, Commercial
Director, Council, AUT Pay Claim, Exchange Ads, Ruskin, Trading Accounts,
UMAG, Audit Committee, Web Phone Directories, Holiday Sites.
3. Inkytext Works Outing Diary [Held Over yet again]
4. Events: End of term worship and buffet, Gladly Solemn Sound.
5. Small Ads: Flats to let and wanted`, Alumni, Boy's Bike, IKEA sofa plus
other furnishings, Apple Mac, Mosquito nets, Web Design, Golf Set.
6. Readers' Letters: Press Office, Mitchell's, Cycle Path, Clare
Short, Exchange Folders, Ruskin, Y2K, Kosovo Aid.
MINUTES, AMENDMENTS, MATTERS ARISING
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As well as Prof Bill Davies, Prof Sommerville also addressed the
pre-council meeting on JIF bids. Slides presented are at:
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/JIF/
All sympathy to Pro-VC Alan Whitaker, absent last week because of a
family bereavement.
The final Library bill has not been overlooked in our capital
programme but the figures involved are commercially sensitive.
Sponsorship money for Peter Lund and John Bradshaw's epic
cross-country walk (180 miles from St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay) should
be sent in as soon as possible. Figures (substantial!) later.
County's 30th Anniversary dinner is this Saturday - about 200 are
coming. Latecomers should contact Trish Corless in the College Office.
Fiona Aiken, the new University Secretary, starts work on Thursday.
Lottery money has been forthcoming for the CANDO project, which it is
hoped will find a new home later this summer.
1. INKYTEXT ADMINISTRATOR OF THE YEAR 1999: AWARD CEREMONY
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This is traditionally a controversial award: readers would expect
no less. It is also sometimes said to be cursed, and a glance at the
subsequent fortunes of previous winners might lend credence to that
view.... No matter: at the time of the awards all could see their
justification.
Last year's winner, former SU President Guy McEvoy, modestly protested
that he held none of the virtues ascribed to him in the citation except
having the sense to cut off his pigtail, which he described as a very
marginal decision. His colleagues objected to being called a team built
by him, pointing out that they had each been elected individually.
Individuals are indeed elected, but only initiative turns them into a
team. Initiative and quiet efficacity are the fundamental qualities
recognised by this award, especially since they tend to go unnoticed
and unrewarded in official circles, and indeed unnoticed by ourselves
until something goes wrong. There are some jobs so consumately
performed that we all forget they exist, administrators so perfectly
Jeevesian that they risk being overlooked.
For example, a truly Woodhousian recent Duke of [xxx], week-ending
alone with friends, once complained that his toothbrush wouldn't foam.
He had not realised that it is necessary to apply a dollop of
toothpaste, for at home his immaculate butler had invariably done this,
unbeknown to his master, before passing His Grace the brush.
So at Lancaster, where there is at least one who has consistently
impressed by the sheer efficiency of his office, even though it
regularly has to handle complaints attributable to the sins of others.
Unfortunately to appreciate just how efficient he is you really have to
be dead... hence this timely award on behalf of the living.
Traditionally the award is presented by the world's most beautiful
woman, since none other would be worthy of the world's leading
educational e-zine. Unfortunately Emmanuelle Beart, equally
traditionally, is unable to be with us other than in virtual mode.
Mlle Beart has, also unfortunately, lost her lucrative modelling job,
in which she succeeded Catherine Deneuve as 'the face of Chanel'. With
endearing frankness, but perhaps a certain lack of tact, she revealed
in an interview that her favourite scents were sweat and body odour.
This seems to have offended her parfumier employers. Happily her film
career is soaring and the baby is thriving.
And so... for Pro-active initiatives
for Getting on with the job
for Running a happy office
for Ultra-rapid interventions where needed
for Accurate information
for Superb superannuation and perfect pension claims handling
the goddess steps forward and presents the award to...
THE 1999 INKYTEXT ADMINISTRATOR OF THE YEAR
TERRY HALLAM
PAYROLL MANAGER
2. NEWS
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BEST WISHES TO CHEF CHRIS HOLMES, who suffered a heart attack on
Friday but is making good progress in Coronary Care. Chris, an
enthusiastic scoutmaster, had been making rushing to make arrangements
for scout camp after finishing his breakfast shift. His brother Tim is
also one of our chefs.
MANY CONGRATULATIONS TO MICHAEL WHEELER, principal begetter of the
Ruskin Project and Library, who has been appointed Director of Chawton
House Library in Hampshire, on the Chawton Estate. The project
initially involves completing the restoration of an Elizabethan house
(with Jacobean additions) and the adjacent manor, farms, 275 acres,
etc.
Professor Wheeler will focus on both scholarly and developmental
matters, raising the profile of the project, creating academic links,
raising funds, and then bringing a great collection of early English
women's writing (1600-1830) from the USA to Chawton following the
restoration, and establishing a study centre for early English women's
writing there. He takes up his new duties in the autumn.
The focus figure is Jane Austen, whose brother, Edward Austen Knight,
owned Chawton, built in 1585 by the Knight family into which he was
adopted two centuries later.
[NOTE: Despite rumoured lobbying of the VC by lay trustees of the
Ruskin Foundation, it is understood that the post vacated by Prof
Wheeler is not to be filled. (Ed.)]
CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES to Louise Branson (Publications) who
is to succeed long-serving Ian Saunders (Physics) as next Principal of
Bowland College. Currently in Grizedale, Louise, mother of Lorcan, has
been social secretary for one of the livelier senior common rooms.
Bowland also requires a dean and senior tutor.
BEST WISHES TO LINDA BEST, who formerly worked for Allan Bolton in the
Dean's Office of the Management School, recently married Major David
Oak (Cheshire) at the Garrison Church of St Alban in Fulwood Barracks,
Preston. Linda is PA to the Dean of the Faculty of Health at the
University of Central Lancashire, and her new email address is
l.oak@uclan.ac.uk.
AUT PAY CAMPAIGN: Lancaster's exam season was not affected by AUT
action, though elsewhere there were signs of greater militancy. LAUT
exec met recently and has circulated members with details of further
action, including the leafleting of visitors to the graduation
ceremonies and withdrawal of participation in appraisals, TQA and RAE
preparation.
The significant initiatives involve urging HoDs and Admissions
Officers not to collaborate on 19 and 20 August and thereafter. This is
controversial since it affects departments and universities
differentially,, harming only those who go to clearing.
The DfEE's offhand dismissal of the Bett report last week annoyed even
non-sympathizers with the action and reminded us that the Bett
committee was a CVCP initiative. The ball is in the CVCP's court. One
hopes they know whose side they are on.
COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR - CONFERENCES AND CATERING : Mr David Peeks has
been appointed Commercial Director for Conferences and Catering with
effect from 1st July 1999. For the past three years he has worked for
Apollo Leisure as Catering Operations Manager, managing the
redevelopment of catering within a 2.5 million pound refurbished
complex, and with responsibility for all conference and banqueting
facilities. He has also worked at a number of Golf Clubs, notably the
Southport & Ainsdale and the Royal Lytham St Annes, and for Scottish
and Newcastle plc.
[NOTE: Front line Catering staff seemed unaware of this until informed
by the editor. (Ed.)]
COUNCIL'S MEETING on Friday 18th July was described as a gruelling
slog lacking real excitement. Two members have pointed out that it was
nonetheless gratifying to find lay members supporting the _academic_
desirability of the two major JIF ventures, and urging us to find ways
of funding such initiatives even should by some misfortune the JIF bids
prove unsuccessful. (Mr McGregor's papers on the subject focussed on
the financial aspects and risk analysis.) There were two restricted
items.
UMAG recently considered further cost cuts to make the 1999-2000
budget balance. Also a paper from John McGovern on the subejct of income
generation. Suggestions that a new development office be set up raised
objections from those who remember the last one, but Prof Davies is
confident that discreet and individual lobbying of businesses will
prove beneficial in specific areas.
PHONE BOOK WEBSITE: wonderful news. The BT phone books are now online
in searchable database form and very fast. Find it at:
http://www.bt.com/phonenetuk/
Belated of course, and not in the same league as www.pagesjaunes.fr
with its subdirectory pagesblanches, which give you detailed street
plans centred on the address called for majqor French cities, together
with all the shops and offices in the street. In Paris you even get a
photo of the building unless it's in a very narrow street.
TRADING ACCOUNTS: Mr McGregor interviewed those responsible for each
of our so-called 'trading accounts' last week to discuss how they were
performing against the budgeted targets for the year-end and berate
budget holders as appropriate. These accounts include the Scott Gallery
(but not Ruskin), Nuffield, Concerts, etc. Ironically, the
worst-performing account is Catering, which because of poor conference
trade looks set for an 80K loss, rather than the arbitrary and
optimistic 50K surplus assumed by the budget. For most of the year
decisions on Catering have effectively been taken by the Finance
Office.
"SMALL ADS" FOLDER NOW AVAILABLE ON EXCHANGE: ISS have created a
special Exchange Public Folder for the use of people who want to post
small ads that can be viewed by all Exchange users. Many many thanks to
Alan Phillips and co. IT WORKS and is already full of exciting items
for sale.... You can use it for any small personal advertisement from
nuclear reactors for home use to horoscopes for hamsters, all at no
charge.
To find the ads, you need to navigate to the Public Folder called
General\Small Ads in the same way that you'd navigate to a directory on
your hard disk using Windows Explorer:
Make sure that you can see the folder list in Outlook or Exchange
If you don't see it, click on the View menu and then on Folder List
Expand this hierarchy of folders by successively clicking on the "+"
sign to the left of the entries
To send a reply to the person who posted the ad, open it as above, and
click on the Reply button in the toolbar at the top. This will send a
mail message directly to the ad's owner. Make sure you don't click on
Post Reply - this puts your reply into the ads folder, and everyone
will be able to read it.
To post a new add, navigate to the folder and click on the File menu.
Select New, and from the list that appears select Post In This Folder
(alternatively, click on the New Post In This Folder toolbar button at
top left of your toolbar). You'll see a message composition window
appear just as if you were sending a mail message.
When you're done, click on the Post button in the toolbar to post the
message. You can delete any ad that you posted simply by clicking on it
and pressing Delete, just as you'd delete a mail message. You won't be
able to delete anyone else's ad. Ads will automatically be deleted from
the folder after 14 days. They should be brief and contain only text,
not attachments.
THE RUSKIN LIBRARY recently featured in Channel 4's Building of the
Century slot, where 100 20th century British edifices have been
nominated by various people, in this case Clair Wildsmith, curator of
the inaugural 'Ruskin and the Lake District' exhibition, and a Michael
Henderson, described as 'writer'.
[NOTE: reports that we are coming under pressure from the builders and
the architect to accept the building as finished, despite professional
worries on various points, notably discoloration of the external
cladding and the permeability of the cavity wall. The ultimate
responsibility for a decision can only lie with the Director of
Buildings and Estates. (Ed.)]
AUDIT COMMITTEE: WORRYING REPORTS that the Nominations Committee was
minded not to reappoint one of the relentlessly zealous and independent
members of this vital body. In the event he has been reappointed for
one year only.
USEFUL HOLIDAY WEBSITES: A superb and speedy routeplanner for car
drivers travelling in Britain or elsewhere in Europe can be found at
http://www.cwlease.com/cwlint/index2.htm
Apart from the cheapo airlines (www.easyjet.co.uk
www.debonair.co.uk
www.ryanair.ie
www.go-fly.com etc)
the following are also interesting. Note that few can claim to be
comprehensive since they rarely come up with all and only the identical
items.
www.cheapflights.co.uk
www.bargainholidays.com
expedia.msn.co.uk
www.lastminute.com
www.farebase.co.uk
www.flightsavers.co.uk (charters only)
3. INKYTEXT WORKS OUTING DIARY
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[Held over]
4. EVENTS
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CHAPLAINCY CENTRE
End of Term Worship and Buffet for staff
Wednesday 30 June
Service at 12.30 - Lunch at 1.00
Members of staff wishing to attend this termly event
should contact Steve Pearson in the Chaplaincy Centre
which sends wishes for a good summer of work and refreshment.
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Concert
THE GLADLY SOLEMN SOUND
and other local musicians
St Martin's College Chapel
Saturday 3 July 1999
at 7.30 p.m.
Tickets 3.50 (Children 2.00)
Tickets on the door or in advance: Tel Lancaster 32838
Proceeds for Save the Children Fund
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5. SMALL ADS
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ROOFTOP FLAT ON CAMPUS. Available July to end September. Quiet
location. Large sunny patio with outside storage cupboards. Double
bedroom, kitchen/lounge, bathroom. For further information contact:
Karen 5(92588) or Sue Dunkeld 5(94502)
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FLAT TO LET: One bedroomed flat to let in Scale Hall six miles from
campus. Kitchen, lounge and shower room. Central heating, double
glazing. Furnished and fitted to a high standard including washer
dryer. Short/long lease, would suit non-smoking post grad/doc, staff or
visiting academic. References required. Rent 310 pounds per calendar
month to include gas, electric and water rates. Available from 1st
August. Contact Anne on ext 94358 days or 65918 evenings.
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HOUSE FOR RENT: August 15th -January 28th 1999. Ideal for visiting
academic. 200 year-old terraced cottage, overlooking the Forest of
Bowland, in small, quiet village 5 miles from University campus. Double
Bedroom/study, bath/shower, fully-equipped kitchen and lounge with sofa
bed. 350 GBP. Contact: j.stacey@lancaster.ac.uk (01524-594184).
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Were you at Lancaster in 1974? The Alumni Office is putting on a Silver
Jubilee Dinner for the graduates of 1974. Staff are cordially invited to
attend. Details of attendees and programme on
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/alumni/silver.htm
Full details or queries to e.fay@lancaster.ac.uk
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FOR SALE: BOYS BICYCLE. Suit 6-9 year old. 5 speed grip shift gears.
Very good Mountain Bike. Good condition. Buyer to remove (due to the
odd spider). 49 GBP. Telephone 01524 848605.
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FOR SALE: 1. Apple Macintosh PowerPC 7500/100 AV ? a multimedia
machine with AV board for capture of digitised video or still images
from Camcorder, TV/ video or camera, complete with Avid software for
editing, adding soundtracks etc to digitised video. Also Word
processing and graphics software. 550 ono
2. [preferably as part of 1.] Global village platinum modem (fax,
phone, internet etc. on computer) 80 GBP. Tel: 592716.
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NEEDED BY MEMBER OF STAFF; TWO BEDROOMED FLAT/HOUSE TO RENT.
Preferably in Lancaster or close by. Required from mid to late July for
at least six months. Phone 92159. (Please note that I am way from the
University 24 June - 1 July inclusive).
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LEAVING SALE: IKEA sofa - beige/ cream check. VGC 150 pounds ono; 2
mountain bikes (1 ladies, 1 gents) with many accessories/ extras. VGC -
hardly used. 80 pounds each or 150 for both ono; TV/ video table. VGC 5
pounds; Portable colour TV, old but OK - 20 pounds; Pine 3 drawer
bedside cabinet - VGC - 20 pounds; Pine 6 drawer chest - VGC - 70
pounds ono; Amstrad 186 word processor - monitor, keyboard & printer -
boxed - VGC - 30 pounds ono; 2 large matching suitcases - never used -
unwanted gift - 20 pounds. Contact Jane or Andrew on 01524 382629
(evenings only).
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BOOK FOR SALE: See nice book on Amazon.com; Order it; Get home, find I
bought it 5 years ago and it's on the shelf (sigh). So 1 brand new copy
of the US PB edition of "A Man on the Moon" by Andrew Chaikin (the
basis of the current Channel 4 Saturday series "From The Earth To The
Moon") going to the first taker. Unopened by human hand, 7 pounds only.
Contact Alan Phillips on 93672 or mail to A.Phillips@lancaster.ac.uk
("Phillips, Alan" on Exchange)
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FOR SALE: MOSQUITO NETS, one single and one double bed size. Never
used. Any reasonable offer. Also sundry repellents, coils etc. Just the
thing for your summer expedition! M.Sebba@lancaster.ac.uk
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NEED A WEB-SITE DESIGNED? Michael Auty is available in August and
September for low-cost web-site design. An example of his work can be
found at: http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/mba/. References will be provided
on request. Please contact him before 2nd July or after 28th July on
01524-61847 or e-mail garfield@axford.co.uk.
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GOLF SET FOR SALE, bought two weeks ago, used just once, wrong length.
Toney Penna (USA) Brand. Full set irons(3-9, pw,sw) and Driver(1-5),
all covers; Golfbag(standtype) 3. Price : 470 pounds. (Sale price 599,
bought 500 for set) Email or call me at ext)92876 young-bae yoon
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6. READERS' LETTERS
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We cannot take adverts at the moment. We are currently in discussions
with ISS about setting up an adverts page on our web page where anyone
can post an advert to. Would it be possible to make that clear on
Inkytext so we do not get too bombarded with adverts. They have started
already!
Donna Coward,
Press Office
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I always read the phrase "Beer brewed for a mission" as "Beer brewed
for emission" - a bold acceptance of the 'not bought, merely rented
principle' Possible further research could include scenting, cf effects
of asparagus.
Ian Edmondson
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1. The Outlook Public Folder option maybe more network-efficient, but
how does the would-be reader know when to look for the new issue of a
highly irregular publication? Alternatively, one can make it a daily
routine to check if there is a new one (if you remember the number of
the last one!), only to find day after day that there isn't. For the
moment I shall stay with 'home delivery'.
2. On the question of bells on bicycles, I recommend Dave Smith to
install an old-fashioned horn instead (available from bike shops). I
find, when sounding that, pedestrians jump! It is much more efficient
than an insipid bell.
Stephen Breuer
Chemistry
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The Exchange InkyText archive Public Folder ("Public Folders\All
Public Folders\General\Inkytext" for the hierarchically inclined) is
brim full of InkyTextery as ever, and every last morsel is visible and
waiting to be read. This was a purely local problem (shall I refrain
from calling it "user error"? Nah) which we've resolved happily.
Alan Philips
Postmaster
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In response to David Smith's accident on the cyclepath.
I regularly use the cyclepath from Morecambe to Lancaster and the
stretch of cycleway which connects to the University from Collingham
Park. However I am forming the opinion that these paths are becoming
just too difficult for cyclists to negotiate. I often have to try and
predict the totally random path that dogs and children take as well as
weaving in and out of other pedestrians who distribute themselves
across the cycleway rather than sticking to their own half.
They should rename these paths 'Designated dogs toilets' and thus
relieve me of making a decision between using the road or the
cyclepath.
Andrew Gavriluk
Faculty of Applied Sciences
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By not allowing me to voice a view merely as a student Mr.Bardsley is
making me one-dimensional; simply a college president and nothing more.
Surely it is my right to say what I feel on a subject without stating
at every opportunity my status. Also, if I voice my view as a member of
Union Council then, by association, my views may seem to qreaders to be
representative of the Council itself when this is untrue.
Anyway, enough of this backbiting and on with the letter.
I am quite happy to receive comments from people who are affected by
the decisions which Union Council makes.... If Nick Bardsley's letter
had been written by a student still at this university then I would
have replied differently.
As for Union Council dealing in "lofty meditations" and
"proclamations", how would you know what we do if you're not there?
What it boils down to is the fact that Nick Bardsley is NOT HERE
ANYMORE. Just thought I'd spell it out.
Huw Owen
Student, Fylde Joint-President, University Challenge team member,
reasonably good cook, quite hard-working student, second year,
able-bodied, white, middle class.............
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I recently had a brief conversation with Clare Short, Secretary of
State for International Development, which may interest the readers
of InkyText. The occasion was the launch of Professor Sylvia Walby's
collection of academic papers in the field of gender studies, a book
apparently inspired by Clare Short and for which she provided a
preface.
She was good enough to attend the launch and give a rousing little
speech on the subject of the lot of women in the modern world. In the
course of the speech she informed us that 70% of the world's poor are
women, a fact that I am sure is substantially accurate. She went on to
claim that the Labour Party is at the forefront of efforts to improve
the lot of women in British society and abroad. I forbore to heckle and
merely raised my eyebrow.
After the speech Ms Short mingled - her 'make-over' by the way, seemed
to my eyes to be simply a decent haircut - and a colleague and I were
able to engage her in a small debate about Kosovo and the treatment
of the Serbs. She interrupts a lot, likes to answer questions before
they are fully formed, and was quick to point out that comparing Serb
refugees with Albanian refugees is 'obscene'. Pressed on the issue of
Albanian reprisals against Kosovan Serbs she actually said that it
was 'understandable and in those circumstances, when families have
been murdered and raped, you can see how it might be justified'.
Extraordinary stuff, and not for public consumption, she was careful
in a television interview the next day not to repeat this outburst.
I then asked her if she felt it was justifiable to link the provision
of reconstruction funds for the Serbian Republic to the departure, by
whatever means, of Slobodan Milosevic. 'Absolutely, one hundred
percent,' she barked.
I asked her how the Serbian people were supposed to effect this
departure, given that elections were constitutionally, and practically
according to the OSCE, two years away. Was she, and NATO, asking them
to rise up? The reply was that Milosevic must bear the responsibility,
the same mantra that has been parroted throughout the war.
I asked her that if they really felt they had a right to get rid of
Milosevic, wouldn't it be more honest to assassinate him? Her reply was
that that would be illegal. I pointed out that many would say the same
about NATO's 70 days of bombing, to which, hostile now, she replied
that she had seen 'all the legal advice' and that it backed up NATO.
(Of course, in this day and age, legal advice is more about
risk-assessment than what is and is not legal.) She then swept off and
into her ministerial Jaguar.
If I'd had the wit, and I'm more a textual than a verbal person, I'd
have asked if the fleeing Serbian women of Kosovo counted in her
mission to alleviate the lot of the world's poverty-stricken women. I
didn't, but I bet her conscience does...
Nick Bardsley
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The following anonymous memo from a head of administration to his
general manager has been recently doing the rounds, which may help to
solve the current Y2K concerns:
Our staff has completed the eighteen months of work on time and on
budget. We have gone through everk line of code in everk program in
everk skstem. We have analksed all data bases, all data files including
backups and historic archives, and modified all data to reflect the
requested change.
We can now report that we have completed the "Y to K" change mission,
and all data now reflects kour new standards.
In future the months are Januark, Februark, March April, Mak, June,
Julk August, with September to December unchanged. Also the daks of the
week have been changed to Mondak, Tuesdak, Wednesdak, Thursdak, Fridak,
Saturdak and Sundak.
I trust that this is satisfactork, because to be honest, none of this
Y to K problem has made ank sense to me. What does the kear 2000 have
to do with this? Speaking of which, what do kou think we ought to do
next kear when the two-digit kear rolls over from 99 to 00? We await
kour direction.
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I wonder if you could explain to me the point you are making in your
sentence which follows the announcement in Inkytext 301 of Robert
Hewison's appointment to the Slade Professorship?
There will be two international conferences during Ruskin's centenary
year - the first is at Christ Church and features eleven speakers,
including such well-known names as Simon Schama and Sir Crispin
Tickell, three other Oxford professors, a professor from Berkeley etc
etc. Would you refer to such a conference in your own area as a
'jamboree'?
[NOTE: Emphatically yes, indeed, as would lots of us. (Ed.)]
The second is our own gathering in July, where we hope to bring
together the most eminent Ruskin scholars of the last few decades, such
as Prof John Rosenberg of Columbia and Prof Van Akin Burd. If you find
it impossible to make any positive comments about the Ruskin you could
at least include some facts as well.
Ruth Hutchison
Secretary to the Ruskin Programme
[NOTE: Dearie me. Two points: (1) One can't announce that which one
doesn't know. (2) This journal is dedicated to the belief that on any
topic there are divergent views and that this is a good thing. So one
hopes, was the sage of Coniston, though that is less certain. And no,
nothing will make me think he can draw very well, but I have great
respect for him as a social and economic thinker, less visual aspects
of his work yet to be given the attention they deserve. (Ed.)]
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Inkytext communications always come to in in twos: one addressed to my
BU account and one addressed to my Lancaster account (which I have kept
open to catch stray messages from those who do not know I have moved
and also to stay on the mailing-list for the University's "official"
announcements, a knowledge of which sometimes helps me make sense of
the correct/corrected version of events in your e-journal).
Although I frequently feel twice-blessed to receive two copies of
everything that flows from your e-pen, it does seem a bit of an e-waste
to receive two copies. When you can get a break from your more
important undertakings, could you perhaps find time to delete my
Lancaster address from your mailing list?
Many thanks and warm felicitations. Glad to read recently that you are
feeling better.
Professor John Clayton, Chairman
Department of Religion
Boston University
[NOTE; Merci. Send us a Boston sitrep sometime. (Ed.)]
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Goodbye Lancaster, And thanks for everything.
Mark Elkins
LUSU President
[NOTE: Thanks to you and the other sabbaticals also - and best wishes on
the job hunt. (Ed.)]
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I have not had any offers of a suitable room on campus to collect
goods for Kosovo, so am unable to process this further at present. I
would suggest that, in the meantime, those with items to send should
contact the International Aid Trust, as detailed in IT300.
Non-Lancaster-IT -readers might possibly contact Workers Aid Direct,
or hunt out there own local International Aid Trust.
Michael Jackson (mike-de-hest@talk21.com)
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