From ccl@www.ccl.net Sat Jul 5 11:50:02 1997 Received: from bedrock.ccl.net for ccl@www.ccl.net by www.ccl.net (8.8.3/950822.1) id KAA27154; Sat, 5 Jul 1997 10:57:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nz11.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de for Joachim.Schummer@geist-soz.uni-karlsruhe.de by bedrock.ccl.net (8.8.6/950822.1) id KAA12107; Sat, 5 Jul 1997 10:57:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ips01 (actually ips01.geist-soz.uni-karlsruhe.de) by nz11.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de with SMTP (PP); Sat, 5 Jul 1997 16:57:37 +0200 Message-ID: <33BECE09.6E31@geist-soz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 15:43:21 -0700 From: Joachim Schummer Reply-To: Joachim.Schummer@geist-soz.uni-karlsruhe.de Organization: Institute of Philosophy, University of Karlsruhe X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold [de] (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: CHEMISTRY list Subject: Urgent! Humanities are in danger of being dissolved Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear CCLers, As a chemists and philosopher, now working on the philosophy of chemistry, I essentially depend on your support because of a disasterous university policy in Germany: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Karlsruhe is in danger of being dissolved ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The commission for university structural affairs of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany has recommended the government (June 21, 1997) to dissolve the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Karlsruhe. In the disguise of an enlightened measure to improve the educational ressources of the country, the government obviously intends to take radical economy measures. Since most humanities departments and faculties have been shrunk to the very lowest level in this country during the last years, the commission's general recommendation to cut another 15-25 p.c. requires now for the first time the closure of a whole faculty. Please support the preservation of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences! Complete our electronic form to require the government to preserve the humanities and social sciences in Karlsuhe: http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~philosophie/iinitiat.htm We run an electronic list of contributers in order to raise the public pressure. Responses from the international natural sciences community are particularily welcome. Please forward this message! Thank you very much for your help, Joachim Schummer ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Joachim Schummer Institute of Philosophy, University of Karlsruhe Postfach 69 80, D-76128 Karlsruhe, GERMANY Joachim.Schummer@geist-soz.uni-karlsruhe.de