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Date: May 3, 2006

email guidelines and tags

Date: May 3, 2006

Wow! Where can we get a copy, Amy? I can't wait to see what power we're freeing in individuals here in CoEP!

Date: May 3, 2006

I found another one!

When we say "world-class marine science," we mean it at the Southern Miss Stennis Center

Who wrote this stuff?

Amy Young

Date: May 3, 2006

See for yourself.

http://www.usm.edu/pr/email-guide.html

Amy Young

Date: May 3, 2006

At the risk of breaking up the party, the web page states:

"For example Email Tags click here."

The word example indicates that these are not all-inclusive and therefore not abridging free speech.

This is a common tactic at most universities -- standards for letterhead, email, etc.

Date: May 3, 2006

talk about micromanaging...what insufficiently engaged person had the time to think that this is a real issue and develop a plan to address it?

Date: May 3, 2006

BAD wrote:

talk about micromanaging...what insufficiently engaged person had the time to think that this is a real issue and develop a plan to address it?

Again, I say:

This is no different than having concrete guidelines for traditional written communication. If you check out most schools' websites, you will find similar policies. This is just USM catching up with the trappings of other colleges and universities.

Date: May 3, 2006

And the penalty for ignoring these guidelines is?

It does not matter, one does not really need USM facilities other than a connection to the internet. You can then access your email from your private server.

Date: May 3, 2006

Amy Young wrote:

How amazing and precious is free speech.

Is Amy referring to some supposed abridgement of free speech through imposition of "approved" taglines, or is she referring to the near poetic nature of a phrase like "liberal arts and arts?" Say that three or four times real fast & then start singing "does eat oats" & see if you see what I mean.

"Me, I romp & stomp, thankful while I romp.
Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp."

Date: May 4, 2006

When we say "world-class marine science," we mean it at the Southern Miss Stennis Center

Just because you say "wurl' class" 3 times fast, doesn't mean it's actually true. Does Harvard have to go around saying every program it has is "wurl' class?" Or even Ole Miss, for that matter?

How Orwellian...

Truth

Date: May 4, 2006

If this is what you've got to gripe about, then I suggest that you pick up a hobby: needlepoint, crochet, gardening, etc.

Date: May 4, 2006

telephono wrote:

If this is what you've got to gripe about, then I suggest that you pick up a hobby: needlepoint, crochet, gardening, etc.

I think the point is that the Administration - PR specifically - thought this was so important that they took the time to invent all the silly tag lines and now are insisting that we use them. No, this is not a serious issue, since nearly everyone will ignore it, but it certainly shows that an Administration that is bleeding funds, treating its employees like dirt, and denying students the high quality educational experience they deserve thinks it is more important to worry about silly email tag lines. THAT is a story worth commenting on.

Date: May 4, 2006

telephono wrote:

If this is what you've got to gripe about, then I suggest that you pick up a hobby: needlepoint, crochet, gardening, etc.

Or maybe just gripe about other posters?

Date: May 4, 2006

Amy Young wrote,

It seems that USM now has issued 10 pages concerning guidelines for emailing. The guidelines include font, use of black type (rather than purple or blue), not using all caps, signatures, and tags. My personal favorite is for the coal

I think that these guidelines were created for the faculty in COST. However, to avoid embarrassing COST, they included all colleges. How do I know that they were created for COST, that is the only college that matters to SFT and his minions. They would have never wasted the time and money on the other colleges.

Date: May 4, 2006

I understand that all tags and signatures must be "approved" by PR and Marketing. I view that as a potential form of censorship.

Unfortunately, many of us so-called "academic types" would view the tags as idiotic at best and stupid at worst.

Amy Young,(fill-in-the-blank) tag

Date: May 4, 2006

I guess I'm in the minority in thinking that email tags are a good idea--as the PR deparment said, they allow us to make a brief statement about core USM values. Since the one's in the memo are just suggestions, I've been working on my own, with a little help from what's on my bookshelf. I'm happy to share them with the message board. Feel free to use them.

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"Four legs good, two legs bad"

"The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples."

"All animals are equal but some are more equal than others"

"The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression."

Date: May 5, 2006

qwerty wrote:

I guess I'm in the minority in thinking that email tags are a good idea--as the PR deparment said, they allow us to make a brief statement about core USM values. Since the one's in the memo are just suggestions, I've been working on my own, with a little help from what's on my bookshelf. I'm happy to share them with the message board. Feel free to use them.

---------------
"Four legs good, two legs bad"

"The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples."

"All animals are equal but some are more equal than others"

"The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression."

I like that qwerty is out there being creative with this. So in that spirit here is another suggestion:

"Against stupidity even the gods stuggled in vain."

Date: May 5, 2006

qwerty, I recognize the first three as Orwell, from Animal Farm, but can you identify the fourth one? And if it's something everybody should know, well - - - sorry.

Date: May 5, 2006

LVN wrote:

qwerty, I recognize the first three as Orwell, from Animal Farm, but can you identify the fourth one? And if it's something everybody should know, well - - - sorry.

The last quote is obscure: its from Mao's Little Red Book. It somehow seemed relevant at the time.
Cheers!

Date: May 5, 2006

qwerty wrote:

The last quote is obscure: its from Mao's Little Red Book. It somehow seemed relevant at the time.
Cheers!

That's not exactly the first source that would've come to mind!

Date: May 5, 2006

telephono wrote:

BAD wrote:
talk about micromanaging...what insufficiently engaged person had the time to think that this is a real issue and develop a plan to address it?

Again, I say:

This is no different than having concrete guidelines for traditional written communication. If you check out most schools' websites, you will find similar policies. This is just USM catching up with the trappings of other colleges and universities.

I've taught at 5 other universities. I have never heard of such "trappings."

Date: May 5, 2006

"'If,' said Hermione at last, 'we could only realise, that in the spirit we are all one, all equal in the spirit, all brothers there---the rest wouldn't matter, there would be no more of this carping and envy and this struggle for power, which destroys, only destroys.'

This speech was received in silence, and almost immediately the party rose from the table. But when the others had gone, Birkin turned round in bitter declamation, saying:

'It is just the opposite, just the contrary, Hermione. We are all different and unequal in spirit---it is only the social differences that are based on accidental material conditions. We are all abstractly or mathematically equal, if you like. Every man has hunger and thirst, two eyes, one nose and two legs. We're all the same in point of number. But spiritually, there is pure difference and neither equality nor inequality counts. It is upon these two bits of knowledge that you must found a state. Your democracy is an absolute lie---your brotherhood of man is a pure falsity, if you apply it further than the mathematical abstraction. We all drank milk first, we all eat bread and meat, we all want to ride in motor-cars---therein lies the beginning and the end of the brotherhood of man. But no equality."

Date: May 5, 2006

For a minute there, I was looking for the quote in Harry Potter.

Date: May 5, 2006

It's from chapter 8 of Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence.

Date: May 5, 2006

And this one's by no means from Lawrence:

"Ah, Equality!" said the Director. "We must talk of that some other time. Yes, we must all be guarded by equal rights from one another's greed, because we are fallen. Just as we must all wear clothes for the same reason. But the naked body should be there underneath the clothes, ripening for the day when we shall need them no longer. Equality is not the deepest thing, you know."

"I always thought that was just what it was. I thought it was in their souls that people were equal."

"You were mistaken," said he gravely. "That is the last place where they are equal. Equality before the law, equality of incomes--that is very well. Equality guards life; it doesn't make it. It is medicine, not food."

Date: May 5, 2006

"I shall do such things, what they will be I do not know. But they will be the terrors of the earth"

By Huckleberry Finn

Date: May 5, 2006

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