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<p>Spoštovani, posredujem.</p>
<p>Lep pozdrav vsem,</p>
<p>Nada Grošelj</p>
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<td>FIEC : Appeal to Restore Classics at the University of Vermont</td>
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<td>2019-03-16 15:41</td>
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<td>Paul Schubert <Paul.Schubert@unige.ch></td>
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<th align="right" valign="baseline" nowrap="nowrap">Prejemnik:</th>
<td>"Hilton@ukzn.ac.za" <Hilton@ukzn.ac.za>, "info@altphilologenverband.de" <info@altphilologenverband.de>, "mg.geschaeftsstelle@online.de" <mg.geschaeftsstelle@online.de>, "secretariaadec@gmail.com" <secretariaadec@gmail.com>, "secretary@ascs.org.au" <secretary@ascs.org.au>, "gottfriedeugen.kreuz@sbg.ac.at" <gottfriedeugen.kreuz@sbg.ac.at>, "latomus@belgacom.net" <latomus@belgacom.net>, "secretaria@classica.org.br" <secretaria@classica.org.br>, "v.gerdzhikova@uni-sofia.bg" <v.gerdzhikova@uni-sofia.bg>, "aglazebrook@brocku.ca" <aglazebrook@brocku.ca>, "melinagreece@vtr.net" <melinagreece@vtr.net>, "kimcho@snu.ac.kr" <kimcho@snu.ac.kr>, "grekou_zadi@yahoo.fr" <grekou_zadi@yahoo.fr>, "z.martinic.jercic@gmail.com" <z.martinic.jercic@gmail.com>, "selat.org@gmail.com" <selat.org@gmail.com>, "estudiosclasicos@estudiosclasicos.org" <estudiosclasicos@estudiosclasicos.org>, "mjufresa@ub.edu" <mjufresa@ub.edu>, "anne.lill@ut.ee" <anne.lill@ut.ee>, "hcc268@nyu.edu" <hcc268@nyu.edu>, "stcamws@camws.org" <stcamws@camws.org>, "katja.varakas@helsinki.fi" <katja.varakas@helsinki.fi>, "m.fartzoff@wanadoo.fr" <m.fartzoff@wanadoo.fr>, "association.bude@wanadoo.fr" <association.bude@wanadoo.fr>, "societe-etudes-latines@paris-sorbonne.fr" <societe-etudes-latines@paris-sorbonne.fr>, "dkalamak@otenet.gr" <dkalamak@otenet.gr>, "vasskonstantin@gmail.com" <vasskonstantin@gmail.com>, "etephil@gmail.com" <etephil@gmail.com>, "secr@archetai.gr" <secr@archetai.gr>, "okortudomanyi.tarsasag@gmail.com" <okortudomanyi.tarsasag@gmail.com>, "p.strepsiades@gmail.com" <p.strepsiades@gmail.com>, "lisa.maurice@biu.ac.il" <lisa.maurice@biu.ac.il>, "mario.capasso@unisalento.it" <mario.capasso@unisalento.it>, "Hiroyuki.Takahashi@bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp" <Hiroyuki.Takahashi@bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp>, "aureliavargasvalencia@gmail.com" <aureliavargasvalencia@gmail.com>, "fonayemi02@yahoo.com" <fonayemi02@yahoo.com>, "norsk-klassisk@ifikk.uio.no" <norsk-klassisk@ifikk.uio.no>, "a.lardinois@let.ru.nl" <a.lardinois@let.ru.nl>, "euroclassic@ci.uc.pt" <euroclassic@ci.uc.pt>, "ioana.m.costa@gmail.com" <ioana.m.costa@gmail.com>, "office@hellenicsociety.org.uk" <office@hellenicsociety.org.uk>, "office@romansociety.org" <office@romansociety.org>, "office@classicalassociation.org" <office@classicalassociation.org>, "gadjans@eunet.rs" <gadjans@eunet.rs>, "nada-marija.groselj@guest.arnes.si" <nada-marija.groselj@guest.arnes.si>, "gunhild.viden@class.gu.se" <gunhild.viden@class.gu.se>, "karin.schlapbach@unifr.ch" <karin.schlapbach@unifr.ch>, "contact@gregl.ch" <contact@gregl.ch>, "jkf@ff.cuni.cz" <jkf@ff.cuni.cz>, "ekinoyken@gmail.com" <ekinoyken@gmail.com>, "sscepano@f.bg.ac.rs" <sscepano@f.bg.ac.rs>, "obertbernard@yahoo.co.uk" <obertbernard@yahoo.co.uk>, "amartin@ulb.ac.be" <amartin@ulb.ac.be>, "orlandi@aiegl.org" <orlandi@aiegl.org>, "marco.rizzi@unicatt.it" <marco.rizzi@unicatt.it>, "markopou@phil.uoa.gr" <markopou@phil.uoa.gr>, "kristi.viiding@gmail.com" <kristi.viiding@gmail.com>, "Francois.Baratte@paris-sorbonne.fr" <Francois.Baratte@paris-sorbonne.fr>, "simonetta1964@yahoo.it" <simonetta1964@yahoo.it>, "giovanniindelli@tiscali.it" <giovanniindelli@tiscali.it>, "d.j.bennet@sheffield.ac.uk" <d.j.bennet@sheffield.ac.uk>, "Marielle.de_franchis@paris-sorbonne.fr" <Marielle.de_franchis@paris-sorbonne.fr>, "tll@thesaurus.badw.de" <tll@thesaurus.badw.de>, "lbrisson@agalma.net" <lbrisson@agalma.net>, "pavolpe@unisa.it" <pavolpe@unisa.it>, "rengakos@the.forthnet.gr" <rengakos@the.forthnet.gr>, "zkfmantika@gmail.com" <zkfmantika@gmail.com>, "ivantchik@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr" <ivantchik@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr>, "liu_jian@cass.org.cn" <liu_jian@cass.org.cn>, "shs.wh@uw.edu.pl" <shs.wh@uw.edu.pl>, "admin@fondationhardt.ch" <admin@fondationhardt.ch>, "gonzalezponce@gmail.com" <gonzalezponce@gmail.com>, "estudiosclasicosbolivia@gmail.com" <estudiosclasicosbolivia@gmail.com></td>
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<td>John Franklin <John.Franklin@uvm.edu>, "acosta-hughes.1@osu.edu" <acosta-hughes.1@osu.edu>, "Chris Carey (c.carey@ucl.ac.uk)" <c.carey@ucl.ac.uk>, "Christiane Reitz (christiane.reitz@uni-rostock.de)" <christiane.reitz@uni-rostock.de>, Fromentin Valérie (fromentin.valerie@orange.fr) <fromentin.valerie@orange.fr>, Gunhild Vidén (gunhild.viden@gmail.com) <gunhild.viden@gmail.com>, "gxanth@g-xanthaki.gr" <gxanth@g-xanthaki.gr>, "jesus.delavilla@uam.es" <jesus.delavilla@uam.es>, "Martha Irigoyen (marthairigoyen5@gmail.com)" <marthairigoyen5@gmail.com>, "Montanari Franco (franco.montanari@unige.it)" <franco.montanari@unige.it>, Paul Schubert <Paul.Schubert@unige.ch>, "Sabine Huebner (sabine.huebner@unibas.ch)" <sabine.huebner@unibas.ch></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Dear colleagues,<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">May I ask you to circulate this petition among members of your Classics association ? Many thanks in advance, on behalf of our colleagues at the University of Vermont.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">With best wishes to all,<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Paul Schubert (FIEC Secretary General)<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">De :</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"> John Franklin <John.Franklin@uvm.edu> <br /><strong>Envoyé :</strong> samedi, 16 mars 2019 13:22<br /><strong>À :</strong> John Franklin <John.Franklin@uvm.edu><br /><strong>Obj</strong></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">et :</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"> Appeal to Restore Classics at the University of Vermont<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Classics Societies, <!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We would be very grateful if you could post the following appeal to your social media platforms and members-lists.<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you!<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">John C. Franklin, Professor and Chair, UVM Classics  <!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><a name="_GoBack"></a>>>Dear Friends and Colleagues,<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">We would be very grateful if you would sign our petition to reverse the 50% cut to Classics that the University of Vermont (UVM) has suffered in the last three years through an austerity regime of unreplaced retirements and rolling lecturer terminations. UVM is now undergoing an administrative change—influenced in part by campus-wide protests to humanities cutbacks—and we hope to prevail upon the incoming president (Suresh Garimella, currently Provost at Purdue) to restore us to the 2015 staffing level that was already deemed minimal by our external program review that same year (conducted by Jeffery Henderson and Richard Thomas).<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">For more specifics, please see the SCS blog: <a href="https://classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/university-vermont-classics-department/blog-fighting-future-classics-university-vermont"> https://classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/university-vermont-classics-department/blog-fighting-future-classics-university-vermont</a>.<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">The petition is here: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wN1GdE5nKzbTeney7Kp3nZCYkFkblKeur8tu-bHFgig/edit#gid=0"> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wN1GdE5nKzbTeney7Kp3nZCYkFkblKeur8tu-bHFgig/edit#gid=0</a><!-- o ignored --></p>
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