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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 14:48:06 PST
From:         National Wildlife Federation <nwfnatl@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject: Re: LOOKING FOR SOLUTIONS TO COMMON PROBLEMS

Howdy friends!  My name is Dianell Dreibelbis and I presently work for the
National Wildlife Federation as a campus organizer. I recently read an e-mail
from Noah Smith and Sean Claiborne titled "Looking for Solutions to Common
Problems".  I, as a past Student Government President strongly support SGA's
networking with one another.  I also feel that the most effective way to
solve problems that effect one's campus/commmunity/biosphere is through
seeking out imput from those schools who have successfully conquered such
said problems.  I have had the pleasure of witnessing even the smallest of
campuses tackle some of the most delicate issues, one example of this would
be the University of Wisconsin - Superior's recent referendum on sexual
orientation.

The main reason unto which I write this belated message is to express a
common problem in which plagues most campus organizations across the country:
simplely stated this would be the lack of focus.  By focus I mean working on
only one or two issues at a time, planning a strategy, building coalitions
with other campus/community organization, coming up with a solution that will
satisfy the campus/community (or at least the majority), and seeing the issue/
campaign through.  This is not meant to to be attacking in the slightest, but
to express that as a professional campus organizer now responsible for a
national campaign on at least 167 campuses within 11 states of the midwest
Student Government Associations are the piller of campus organizing.  SGA's
are a democratic representation of the students, theyy set standards, they
guide pro-active communication on issues effecting the campus community, they
are at the forefront of campus organizing,  Even though all of this may be true
it doesn't mean that all SGA's always solve their "problems" in ways that are
focused and pro-active.  Yes, the problem may be solved and a decision may have
 been made
but there is always room for change.

I hope that no one will take this imput as criticism, honestly it is not and it
is being stated with the highest of respect.  I hope to see future communication
along these line over SGAnet.  Your comments are always welcome.  I have to
stated that I have come to you with the respect that it is through SGA's
that the student across the country have gained access to information, tackled
issues, and gained rights that they have never before and I am hoping that
it will also be SGA's who set standards within campus/community organizing.
Only you can change the present rate that we are moving and together we can
make a difference.  If anyone would like more info on campus organizing please
feel free to contact me at nwfnatl@igc.apc.org


                        Thank You For Your Time!

                        Dianell Dreibelbis
                        Campus Organizer, NWF


PS-  If anyone hasn't told you recently...Keep Up The Great Work!
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:56:07 -0800
From:         "Derek K. Miller" <dkmiller@UNIXG.UBC.CA>
Subject:      Re: LOOKING FOR SOLUTIONS TO COMMON PROBLEMS

On Fri, 22 Jan 1993, Kenneth A Gideon wrote:

> Robert Kelly writes:
>  > Hello,
>  >         I am a member of the Student government here in Valdosta Georgia.
 We
>  ar
>  > e
>  >  currently looking for the solution to two interesting problems:
>  >         1.  The city government would like to create a zoning law that
 would
>  for
>  > bid
>  >  more than three non related people from living in the same house.  The
>  reason
>  >  behind this is because they believe it would cut down on parking problems
>  and
>  >  noise in neighborhoods..  We would like some advice on solving this
 problem.
>  >  At the current time we have no committees on external relations but the
>  >  President of SGA is planning to go to the next city council meeting.

Where are they expecting students to live? Is your institution large or
small, and how about the city? These questions matter; if yours is a large
institution in a small town, there is probably some resentment on the part
of town residents -- but much of their economy may be driven by your
college. On the other hand, if you're a small college in a large city, you
will have much less clout. At UBC (28,000 students in an isolated part of
a metropolitan area of 2 million), the immediate local area acts like the
small town I described, but the outside community has only had a few
niggly problems. For instance, the City of Vancouver wanted to crack down
on illegal (not-permit) secondary suites (eg. basement apartments), but
found it very difficult to do so.

>
>  >         2.  Soon we are voting on the acceptance of a Gay and Lesbian club
 on
>  ca
>  > mpus.
>  >  We would like to know if anyone has had any trouble with this.
>  >
>  >
>  > Answers from anyone would be helpful.
>  > Nick Kelly Valdosta State College
>
> In response to this question, I can be of great benefit to your SGA.  Here at
> Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, our Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Student
> Union has been recognized for almost 7 years now.  In regards to troubles,
> there have been occassions of verbal harassment towards several of the members
> of the GLBSU.

At the University of British Columbia here in Vancouver, our Gays,
Lesbians, and Bisexuals of UBC (GLBUBC) service organization has been
around longer than any other campus organization in Canada -- about 15
years, I think, if not longer. Although there are a few problems (most
notably with washroom graffiti), in general our campus community is quite
responsible with the rights of homosexuals. In fact, ours is one of the
few universities which gives spousal benefits to the same-sex partners of
its employees. I wouldn't say it's a progressive institution overall, but
it has at least made some strides (sometimes with legal pressure).

      :=:=> Derek K. Miller                 dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca
      Researcher, Alma Mater Society        thegrodd@tz.ucs.sfu.ca
      University of British Columbia, Canada
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:55:37 -0800
Reply-To:     Len MacDonell <len@TREND.COM>
From:         Len MacDonell <len@TREND.COM>
Subject:      QMS on AppleTalk

I have recently plugged a QMS PS-410 laser printer into an Appletalk network
through  the Localtalk connector in back of the QMS. It works fine from a Mac.
From a NeXT however I've gone through a few reboots to get a Mac Drive mounted
through the NeXT appleshare.


At this point I can use Print Manager to create an new printer choosing the
appropriate driver and Appletalk which fills in the Zone and Printer Name. When
I hit the test print, the job gets queued and it says "printing" but it doesn't
make it any further. I lose the Appleshare connection and an alert occasionally
comes up stating the printer is unavailable/offline. If I save a Print job to a
ps file, send it to the Mac and download to the printer from there it comes out
fine.

The network is simple, Two Macs, one with an Ethernet card and a short piece of
Thin net to the NeXT. Liaison Router software running on one Mac.


Thanks for any insights!


Len MacDonell
Santa Cruz, CA
408-462-4503
408-462-5439 fax
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 08:42:27 -0600
Reply-To:     Joseph McWilliams <mcwilljg@EULER.SFASU.EDU>
From:         Joseph McWilliams <mcwilljg@EULER.SFASU.EDU>
Subject:      Problems with NS3.0 and Word Perfect

Have any of you WordPerfect users experienced problems with WP after upgrading
 to NS3.0?  We have experienced
major problems.  The problems are even worse on the Turbos than on the older
 workstations.  Most gliches seem to be of
a key board remapping nature (r=down arrow,  w=return, -=delete, etc.).

Does anyone have an e-mail address for WP tech-support?

Thanks for any information that you might have.
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:40:50 -0800
Reply-To:     Len MacDonell <len@TREND.COM>
From:         Len MacDonell <len@TREND.COM>
Subject:      QMS on AppleTalk

I have recently plugged a QMS PS-410 laser printer into an Appletalk network
through  the Localtalk connector in back of the QMS. It works fine from a Mac.
From a NeXT however I've gone through a few reboots to get a Mac Drive mounted
through the NeXT applshare.


At this point I can use print manager to create an new printer choosing the
appropriate driver and Appletalk which fills in the Zone and Printer Name. When
I hit the test print, the job gets queued and it says "printing" but it doesn't
make it any further. I lose the Applshare connection and an alert occasionally
comes up stating the printer is unavailable/offline. If I save a Pint job to a
ps file, send it to the Mac and download to the printer from there it comes out
fine.

The network is simple, Two Macs, one with an Ethernet card and a short piece of
Thin net to the NeXT. Liaison Router software running on one Mac.

The QMS has 2mb RAM. I seem to recall someone else having a similar problem
with a 17 page per minute QMS on Ethernet.

Thanks for any insights!


Len MacDonell
Santa Cruz, CA
408-462-4503
408-462-5439 fax
NeXt mail welcome
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:10:46 -0500
Reply-To:     "Todd M. Chamberlain"
              <n8emr!copi!aussie!todd@MSTAR.MORNINGSTAR.COM>
From:         "Todd M. Chamberlain"
              <n8emr!copi!aussie!todd@MSTAR.MORNINGSTAR.COM>
Subject:      Difficulties with Reply-To

Hi,

I have been fiddling with this for a bit and haven't come up with any
answers.  When I set the Reply-To field in Mail.app to
todd@aussie.cmhnet.org, my outgoing mail has the
aussie!aussie.cmhnet.org!todd.  Where does the extra aussie come
from.  I think this started when I made it so that mail outside of my
local domain goes to the site that feeds me (via uucp).  Any
suggestions?  Thanks in advance.

Todd Chamberlain
todd@aussie.cmhnet.org (only one aussie :) )
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:54:18 -0600
Reply-To:     Dan Johnston <dan@CA1.NEUSC.BCM.TMC.EDU>
From:         Dan Johnston <dan@CA1.NEUSC.BCM.TMC.EDU>

I am looking to buy a zyxel modem and a cd rom drive for my next turbo.
Would anyone who has purchased any of these recently give me
advice as to where       I can get tehh best prices?
thanks,
dan
From: md3b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew Donald Drown)
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Subject: Resource Forks w/ Appleshare & NeXTStep 3.0
Date: 27 Jan 93 09:43:56 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I recently upgraded a machine to 3.0.  I have the the appleshare program
working fine, except for resource forks not showing up.  I vaguely
remember some easy way to set this in the netinfo manager, under
localconfig (Changing the "HIDDEN" value in the appleshare option has no
effect that I can tell).  I can access other servers, and the files
there.  Any executables come up as 0 bytes long in the terminal window.

I had this working with a prelease of 3.0, but can't get it working on
the release version.  Can anyone send me some help on this one?

-Matt Drown
INI Sys Admin
 
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:30:17 -0400
Reply-To:     David Kelman <KELMAN@NIEHS.BITNET>
From:         David Kelman <KELMAN@NIEHS.BITNET>
Subject: Re: Disk eject

        NeXT has acknowledged that this is a bug, and have posted a workaround
on next.com in the directory /pub/binaries.  It is call DiskEjectFix.compressed.
When installed, the NeXT will launch a daemon upon login that will handle the
patch.  It appears this is a problem anytime you have a autolaunching app,
particularly with apps like Engage!.  The file can be obtained from the
aforementioned site via anonymous FTP.  Hope this helps.

David Kelman
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:28:11 EST
Reply-To:     pan@Athena.MIT.EDU
From:         "Howard W. Pan" <pan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Subject:      Formatting a disk
              <9301251858.AA10563@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>

========
Hi,

I ran in to some problems the other night while trying to perform a low level
format on my internal harddrive. Maybe you could advise me on the situation.

I was having some Media Errors on my internal drive, and people suggested to me
that performing a low level format on that drive would eliminate those
problems. So I used the program sdform to format the drive. The program
said that it would take about 5 minutes to format the 100MB disk. But the
formatting was done in 5 seconds. I then repeated the process with the disk
program and the same thing occurred. Am I doing anything wrong here? I
don't think dong a low level format would only take 5 seconds!

Ugh, I just want to get rid of those media erros!
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MIT
410 Memorial Dr.
Cambridge MA 02139
617-225-8377

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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:33:00 PST
Reply-To:     NeXT is EVERYTHING! <ERICKSEN_M@PLU.BITNET>
From:         NeXT is EVERYTHING! <ERICKSEN_M@PLU.BITNET>
Subject:      Sound Editor

NeXT Users-

Is there a public domain program for creating and exiting sound segments by
altering the sound specs (i.e. frequency, attack, etc.)? I am not looking for a
sampling through microphone type program.

Also is there literature for the make up of the SND sound format that NeXT
uses?

Thanks for the help.

Mark
From: GUMDROP@VTVM1.BITNET (Lee Anne Hoppe, Systems Analysis & Services,
              Va Tech)
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Subject: WordPerfect for version 3.0
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:06:29 GMT
Reply-To: "Lee Anne Hoppe, Systems Analysis & Services,
              Va Tech" <GUMDROP@VTVM1.BITNET>
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I bought a copy of WordPerfect for the NeXT right after I converted
to 3.0.  And alot didn't work.  So I called them.  They said I needed
to specify that I was running 3.0 when I bought WP because they
have a new version of WordPerfect for 3.0.  But they were very nice and
sent me the new version on 3.5" floppies that day.  And it works great.
I don't know what they will do if you have had it for awhile - I had just
bought it - they had not even received the registration card yet but
sent the new one out anyway...guess I have an honest voice. ;-)

I don't have an e-mail but their phone is 801-225-5000.

Good Luck.
Lee Anne Hoppe
Virginia Tech
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:55:32 +0100
Reply-To:     RfSchtkt@banruc60.bitnet
From:         RFSCHTKT@BANRUC60.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Floppy disk problems

All,

sonata.cc.purdue.edu:next/lore/knownbugsin3.0v6.rtf.Z should be
available now. It describes the floppy problem and its solution, but
also many other items. It's on the order of 60 kB in compressed
state.

Raf Schietekat, RfSchtkt@banruc60.bitnet (Flanders, Belgium)
(real, i.e., with triangle in the Deliver button) NeXT Mail preferred
I can't reach sites with ! or % in their address, or ending in ``at''
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:51:47 -0800
Reply-To:     cgeiger@NEXT.COM
From:         cgeiger@NEXT.COM
Subject:      URGENT - Call for Speakers/Presentation Topics: 1993 NeXTWORLD
              Expo

Dear NeXT User,

You are invited to participate in the...

Second Annual NeXTWORLD EXPO Slated for May 1993

Contacts:

          Digital Consulting, Inc. (DCI)
          Paul Lamoureaux, (508) 470-3870

          NeXTWORLD Magazine
          Jeannine Barnard, (415) 978-3183

          Allison Thomas Associates
          Angela Grady, (415) 780-3786


SECOND ANNUAL NeXTWORLD EXPO SLATED FOR MAY 1993
10,000 Attendees Expected at San Francisco Event

SAN FRANCISCO, January, 1993 - Digital Consulting, Inc. (DCI),
NeXTWORLD Magazine and NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced that
NeXTWORLD Expo '93 the second international conference devoted to
the NeXTSTEP platform will be held at the Moscone Convention Center
in San Francisco May 25 through 27, 1993.  More than 10,000 people
from commercial, government and educational organizations are
expected to attend the event, which combines a Developer's
Conference, User Conference and product showcase.

Enclosed is a Presentation Proposal Form to be completed by anyone
interested in becoming a SPEAKER at this year's NeXTWORLD Expo
User and Developer Conference programs.  Email your completed form
today to info@next.com.  The deadline for submissions is Monday,
January 25th.


Best wishes,

Conrad Geiger
Manager, International NeXT User Groups

P.S. Call to get on the postal mailing list for advanced
registration and more information about the 1993 NeXTWORLD Expo:
1-800-767-2336 -or- from outside North America call 508-470-3880
-or- fax (508)470-0526.

Exhibitors please contact Matthew Schmuck or Charlie Hurth at DCI
West--
                408 280 6778 voice
                408 280 6779 fax

Space will be assigned on a first-come, first-serve basis.  More
than 100 vendors are expected to participate.

____________________________________________________________________
NeXTWORLD Expo '93 Conferences
Presentation Proposal Form

Name:

Title:

Organization:

Address:

City:        State:        Zip:

Phone Number:

Topic Information

Title:

Category (Please indicate the most appropriate area to which your
presentation topic relates):

[] Client/Server Computing Issues   [] Enterprise-Wide Deployment
[] Application Development Issues   [] Building Database Applications
[] Interoperability & Networking    [] Object-Oriented Technology

Abstract (Please prepare a 100-word summary of your topic covering
its goals, key points, issues, and experiences, etc.)

Complete and email this form with the Subject heading:

        "NeXTWORLD Expo '93 User Conference [65KVER]"

to: info@next.com.

>> Deadline for Submissions is 1/25/93 >>
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:56:29 +0100
Reply-To:     otto@hainzl.co.at
From:         hainzl <otto@HAINZL.CO.AT>
Subject: Re: Disk eject

Maybe we can return to the good old system with summaries, otherwise
each topic is discussed 5 times here. Thanks,

Otto
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:13:13 CST
Reply-To:     NEXT%HCPC1.THENET@LIB.TMC.EDU
From:         NEXT%HCPC1.THENET@LIB.TMC.EDU
Subject:      NeXT Software Source

I am fairly new to the NeXT world.

What are some of the most comprehensive sources (books, magazines, catalogs,
manuals, NeXT, Inc., anonymous FTP sites, etc.) of available NeXT software?

Please feel free to send me any info or comments directly to:

                next%hcpc1.thenet@lib.tmc.edu
Thanks,
Charlie
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:00:12 -0500
From:         "Thomas P. Bolles" <tpbolles@DG10SVARMD.ER.USGS.GOV>
Subject:      Re: British Casualties WWI
Comments: To: History Discussion List <HISTORY%RUTVM1.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu>

There's the obvious - the Imperial War Museum, their pretty friendly
and very helpful for small requests. The Embassy in DC is also helpful
so long as you deal with the military attache' and not the public information pe
 ople. The pub info people have been rather nasty in recent
years - esp the ones in the NY embassy...
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From: crdunlea@rodan.acs.syr.EDU (Christopher R. Dunlea)
Subject: Re: Large lecture sections
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 16:22:58 EST

In article <HISTORY%93012112201108@RUTVM1.RUTGERS.EDU> "Donna J. Spindel" <HST001@MARSHALL.BITNET> writes:
>We would like to initiate some large (140 students) lecture sections in World
>Civilization. I'd appreciate having advice about how other History departments
>manage this. Do you have small discussion groups, for example? What kind of
>testing to ue use? Thanks for your help.
>Donna J. Spindel
>HST001@Marshall.WVNET.EDU
>Dept. of History
>Marshall University
>Huntington, WV 25705

Another person from Marshall University! You meet so many people...
What we did at UMass (and so here at Syracuse) was have a large
lecture hall meeting twice a week for all the students. This was 
1 hour each. Then, for the third hour of the courseweek, students would 
meetin in groups of twenty with a TA to discuss in detail what they learned 
at lecture and the readings. 

Gradings/Tests: There are ways to do this. You could offer tests en masse
in the lecture hall, say, a mid-term and final, with discussion participation
as 30% of the final grade, or you could do the same and have the discussion
TAs give a short quiz on the readings for a small pat of the grade (so they
can't skip discussion when they please). 
Scheduling: since everybody has their own schedule, the lectures should be
inflecible: Monday-Wednesday, say. The discussion would be variable:

with 20 students /140 total, you get 7 sections. (Provided you have enough
TA to do 7 sections). So you could schedule the discussions on Thursday and
Friday on various times of the morn and afternoon. Hint: Friday afternoon 
sections don't sell very well.

Any questions?

Chris


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From: akerr@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Austin Kerr)
Subject: Re: multiple choice exams
Organization: The Ohio State University
 An essay exam requires the same skills that one uses
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:43:29 GMT

Certainly the skills used in an essay exam are closer to "real world" skills 
than are those of multiple choice exams, but they are still pretty far away!  
Those of us who claim to "know" about such matters often have never prepared "a
report in business or government."

I trust that all of those persons who disdain multiple choice exams also eschew
their use in the form of ACT, SAT and GRE scores!
-- 
K. Austin Kerr                    direct line to office 614-292-2613
Professor of History              department line           292-2674
Ohio State University             fax                       292-2282
Columbus, Ohio 43210 USA          e mail           kerr.6@osu.edu
From: Pegasus@AAA.Uoregon.EDU (Pegasus)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.history
Subject: Italian Project
Followup-To: bit.listserv.history
Date: 28 Jan 1993 16:38:33 GMT
Organization: The Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: fp1-dialin-3.uoregon.edu

I am looking for more information on "The Italian Project" which was done
by Mary Martin McLaughlin and Suzanne Wemple and compiled by Heath Dillard.
As I under stand it it was to identify all medieval women's conventual
houses. When it was done in Italy it moved its focas to England. The
origional information about it was found in the Essay by Susan Mosher
Stuard in .Medieval women and the sources of Medieval history. 1990. Is
this DB available at an FTP site? 
Are there any other DBs dealing with other topics realting to medieval
women?
Pegasus
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