This is just too...
shocking.
Okay so the actual e-mail is kind of long, so I'll put it behind a cut.
This demand to remove everything from our halls sounds crazy! ... No rockers on our back porch? Can we post a class schedule and office hours schedule on our office doors? Does this mean my bumper sticker and one cartoon AND my whiteboards for student messages to me have to come off my door and outside wall? Does this mean that no desks for students nor chairs can be in the hall? That we can't put bins outside our doors to return papers to students? That we cannot have hall bookshelves? That we cannot have the Rosetta Stone copy on Main Hall 3rd floor? Perhaps Professor Rushing will chain herself to that for a photo!!!
I am copying our work-study leaders- Klarissa and Anne-Louise -- on this email (read Dr. Opt’s message below) then organize ALL POSSIBLE WORK-STUDY STUDENTS IMMEDIATELY to move my stuff that’s in the hall. PLEASE, KLARISSA AND ANNE-LOUISE, call especially those who want Sunday night or Monday hours. However, ALSO call Andy McCoy AND Sara Rasmussen to take photos on Monday before you move anything and while you move my stuff. MY mail-sorting bin perhaps can be placed on the computer ledge on the work-study side my office - or against the wall next to the blackboard. The refrigerator can perhaps be shoved UNDER that same computer ledge and plugged in there (the stuff inside needs to stay cold). But what about the gray, wheeled desk that contains student handouts?.... We might use the grey desk (placed against the wall under the blackboard) as a spot to put our plastic boxes for back Salemite issues that are now stored UNDER the computer ledge near the window. But the computer desk and the old computer on that desk to the right of my door may have to be thrown away - there’s no room inside the office for them. HECK - our fourth-floor attic is messier than our halls - is anyone cleaning THAT OUT????
This sounds like a story for the campus newspaper.Thus, I have copied the editors (read Dr. Opt’s email below, then - EDITOR NICOLE WINSLOW OR BERNADETTE HARRIS: CHECK EARLY MONDAY AM (or send an email tonight) with Director of Administration Anna Gallimore (she’s in the Inspector’s House) to be sure what actually is required and ask her to explain WHY? and WHY NOW? - and whether this policy is also being enforced in DORMS and all officials’ offices. BUT IF THIS IS TRUE, THIS IS A MAJOR CULTURAL CHANGE - SO WE NEED PHOTOGRAPHERS - ESPECIALLY Andy McCoy AND ANY OTHER PHOTOGRAPHERS YOU CAN ENLIST - to take lots of photos all day Monday for a photo spread for THE SALEMITE. Particularly seek photos of special doors -- AND DO THIS QUICKLY BEFORE THEY’RE TORN DOWN - special doors like Jo Dulan’s door and Dr. Terry Smith’s door - and photos of other profs spending time moving things rather than grading papers. AND FINALLY, assign someone to call the city fire marshall to explain his or her reasoning AND ask Ms. Gallimore WHAT PEOPLE will actually be removing rockers & when - and WHO will take away faculty possessions? And where will these personal possessions be put?) And take photos of this removal on Tuesday too.
THIS seems too whacky to be true -- no college in the country that I have ever stepped into bans desks and chairs for students to study in halls before class, (and most college hallways aren't as broad as ours), bars teachers from personalizing their office doors OR forbids teachers from leaving papers outside their doors for students to pick up. Do we have to take down our large departmental bulletin boards, too? Someone seems to have lost their ability to reason IF this is being translated correctly. Carol
PS - KAITLIN & SUSAN & KLARISSA -- if this is actually true, I have valuable oral histories done over the past 5 years that are in manila envelopes in a cardboard box under the grey desk to the left of my office door (as one faces the door). THEY ARE THERE SO THAT WORK STUDY STUDENTS PUTTING THEM ONLINE CAN ACCESS THEM. Please save that box and the desk itself - I own the desk. Put the Oral History box under the computer ledge on the work-study side of my office. Bring in both my rolling graded-papers bin and my mail-sorting slot hutch. Move inside the office the small black refrigerator that’s to the right of the door.
I'm very sorry that I will not be there Monday or early Tuesday morning to do this myself. I had not heard of this. But I WILL be there Tuesday afternoon. My office is more of a fire hazard than the hall - and I WILL clean that out in May after classes end!!! But for goodness sake, I don’t intend to throw out all my books - and they certainly are fuel for a fire! I do think my office desk and floor and some stuff under things outside my door need removing. But this other stuff, if correct, seem to me to be taking away the soul of our small college - no backporch rockers? NO ability to communicate with students using wall or door message boards, drop boxes, calendars and bins for graded student papers? Wow! Why not move all of us to sterile UNC, where it’s hard to even find many a professor’s office - but at least once found, one can find bumper stickers and whiteboards and drop boxes on their doors!!!?? Carol
On 4/2/05 11:47 PM, "Dr. Susan Opt" wrote:
> Hey!
>
> I was talking to Terry Smith today, and she told me that on Monday
> everything has to be removed that's in the hallway outside our doors. In
> addition, everything has to come off our doors (all the new fire
> regulations). She got that from Anne Gallimore.
>
> I know Carol won't be back until Tuesday night. Terry says on Tuesday
> they will come through and throw out anything still outside. So,
> Kaitlin, on Monday, could you have the work study students move all the
> stuff that's outside Carol's door into the work study office or
> something? I'm going to go out there tomorrow and get stuff off my door.
>
> Apparently what the students told me about removing the rockers from the
> porch because they posed a fire hazard was true....
>
> Susan
>
Okay, so if you didn't read all that then here's some random facts:
~new fire marshal, wants all the stuff off the walls in the hallways and on doors in the buildings or so is the trickled down story.
~Sunday morning, half of the things that had been left on our door had been removed with no word or message.
Personal property taken, and likely disposed of, with no reason or explanation
~This is clearly going to be enforced in the Main Hall building where there is a homelyness that is about to be striped.
~I was requested "by name" to document this photographically.
~my name was misused and misspelled. I am trying not to take it personally. It's just a faux pas that I have no credibility to enforce. yet.
~Anne Louise called me during The L Word to tell me of this e-mail and to make sure I could take pictures.
~The professors have to take their time to remove their property from places it has been for years
~Or else it will be removed for them by mysterious people to a mysterious place for mysterious reasons.
~The outrage still stands that this is being taken too far, too suddenly, and if I know Salem, there will be a rip roaring fit before it all goes down.
Yay!
...and there's a pair of shoes in the hall.
Okay so the actual e-mail is kind of long, so I'll put it behind a cut.
This demand to remove everything from our halls sounds crazy! ... No rockers on our back porch? Can we post a class schedule and office hours schedule on our office doors? Does this mean my bumper sticker and one cartoon AND my whiteboards for student messages to me have to come off my door and outside wall? Does this mean that no desks for students nor chairs can be in the hall? That we can't put bins outside our doors to return papers to students? That we cannot have hall bookshelves? That we cannot have the Rosetta Stone copy on Main Hall 3rd floor? Perhaps Professor Rushing will chain herself to that for a photo!!!
I am copying our work-study leaders- Klarissa and Anne-Louise -- on this email (read Dr. Opt’s message below) then organize ALL POSSIBLE WORK-STUDY STUDENTS IMMEDIATELY to move my stuff that’s in the hall. PLEASE, KLARISSA AND ANNE-LOUISE, call especially those who want Sunday night or Monday hours. However, ALSO call Andy McCoy AND Sara Rasmussen to take photos on Monday before you move anything and while you move my stuff. MY mail-sorting bin perhaps can be placed on the computer ledge on the work-study side my office - or against the wall next to the blackboard. The refrigerator can perhaps be shoved UNDER that same computer ledge and plugged in there (the stuff inside needs to stay cold). But what about the gray, wheeled desk that contains student handouts?.... We might use the grey desk (placed against the wall under the blackboard) as a spot to put our plastic boxes for back Salemite issues that are now stored UNDER the computer ledge near the window. But the computer desk and the old computer on that desk to the right of my door may have to be thrown away - there’s no room inside the office for them. HECK - our fourth-floor attic is messier than our halls - is anyone cleaning THAT OUT????
This sounds like a story for the campus newspaper.Thus, I have copied the editors (read Dr. Opt’s email below, then - EDITOR NICOLE WINSLOW OR BERNADETTE HARRIS: CHECK EARLY MONDAY AM (or send an email tonight) with Director of Administration Anna Gallimore (she’s in the Inspector’s House) to be sure what actually is required and ask her to explain WHY? and WHY NOW? - and whether this policy is also being enforced in DORMS and all officials’ offices. BUT IF THIS IS TRUE, THIS IS A MAJOR CULTURAL CHANGE - SO WE NEED PHOTOGRAPHERS - ESPECIALLY Andy McCoy AND ANY OTHER PHOTOGRAPHERS YOU CAN ENLIST - to take lots of photos all day Monday for a photo spread for THE SALEMITE. Particularly seek photos of special doors -- AND DO THIS QUICKLY BEFORE THEY’RE TORN DOWN - special doors like Jo Dulan’s door and Dr. Terry Smith’s door - and photos of other profs spending time moving things rather than grading papers. AND FINALLY, assign someone to call the city fire marshall to explain his or her reasoning AND ask Ms. Gallimore WHAT PEOPLE will actually be removing rockers & when - and WHO will take away faculty possessions? And where will these personal possessions be put?) And take photos of this removal on Tuesday too.
THIS seems too whacky to be true -- no college in the country that I have ever stepped into bans desks and chairs for students to study in halls before class, (and most college hallways aren't as broad as ours), bars teachers from personalizing their office doors OR forbids teachers from leaving papers outside their doors for students to pick up. Do we have to take down our large departmental bulletin boards, too? Someone seems to have lost their ability to reason IF this is being translated correctly. Carol
PS - KAITLIN & SUSAN & KLARISSA -- if this is actually true, I have valuable oral histories done over the past 5 years that are in manila envelopes in a cardboard box under the grey desk to the left of my office door (as one faces the door). THEY ARE THERE SO THAT WORK STUDY STUDENTS PUTTING THEM ONLINE CAN ACCESS THEM. Please save that box and the desk itself - I own the desk. Put the Oral History box under the computer ledge on the work-study side of my office. Bring in both my rolling graded-papers bin and my mail-sorting slot hutch. Move inside the office the small black refrigerator that’s to the right of the door.
I'm very sorry that I will not be there Monday or early Tuesday morning to do this myself. I had not heard of this. But I WILL be there Tuesday afternoon. My office is more of a fire hazard than the hall - and I WILL clean that out in May after classes end!!! But for goodness sake, I don’t intend to throw out all my books - and they certainly are fuel for a fire! I do think my office desk and floor and some stuff under things outside my door need removing. But this other stuff, if correct, seem to me to be taking away the soul of our small college - no backporch rockers? NO ability to communicate with students using wall or door message boards, drop boxes, calendars and bins for graded student papers? Wow! Why not move all of us to sterile UNC, where it’s hard to even find many a professor’s office - but at least once found, one can find bumper stickers and whiteboards and drop boxes on their doors!!!?? Carol
On 4/2/05 11:47 PM, "Dr. Susan Opt" wrote:
> Hey!
>
> I was talking to Terry Smith today, and she told me that on Monday
> everything has to be removed that's in the hallway outside our doors. In
> addition, everything has to come off our doors (all the new fire
> regulations). She got that from Anne Gallimore.
>
> I know Carol won't be back until Tuesday night. Terry says on Tuesday
> they will come through and throw out anything still outside. So,
> Kaitlin, on Monday, could you have the work study students move all the
> stuff that's outside Carol's door into the work study office or
> something? I'm going to go out there tomorrow and get stuff off my door.
>
> Apparently what the students told me about removing the rockers from the
> porch because they posed a fire hazard was true....
>
> Susan
>
Okay, so if you didn't read all that then here's some random facts:
~new fire marshal, wants all the stuff off the walls in the hallways and on doors in the buildings or so is the trickled down story.
~Sunday morning, half of the things that had been left on our door had been removed with no word or message.
Personal property taken, and likely disposed of, with no reason or explanation
~This is clearly going to be enforced in the Main Hall building where there is a homelyness that is about to be striped.
~I was requested "by name" to document this photographically.
~my name was misused and misspelled. I am trying not to take it personally. It's just a faux pas that I have no credibility to enforce. yet.
~Anne Louise called me during The L Word to tell me of this e-mail and to make sure I could take pictures.
~The professors have to take their time to remove their property from places it has been for years
~Or else it will be removed for them by mysterious people to a mysterious place for mysterious reasons.
~The outrage still stands that this is being taken too far, too suddenly, and if I know Salem, there will be a rip roaring fit before it all goes down.
Yay!
...and there's a pair of shoes in the hall.