texascavers Digest 17 Jan 2014 22:59:57 -0000 Issue 1916
Topics (messages 23287 through 23290):
Re: Texas Memorial Museum demise
23287 by: Ron Ralph
23288 by: Katherine Arens
23289 by: Louise Power
23290 by: Andy Gluesenkamp
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From: Jeri Putnam
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 4:03 PM
To: Ron Ralph
Subject: Re: Texas Memorial Museum demise
Hi Ron,
We tried to make an appointment for Jan.15, but that was in the middle of the
first week of the semester and she wasn't available. Mary and I are meeting
with her and two of her staff on Feb. 3 at 11:30.
We have a Facebook page (facebook.com/SaveTMM) where I will be posting updates
as they happen. Currently we have 910 signatures, hoping for 1000, and the
petition is online at ipetitions/petition/SaveOurMuseum. Mary was interviewed
this week by a reporter from the Austin Chronicle, and we hope to see a story
in the next week or two.
Thanks to you and your group for your help!
Jeri Putnam
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From: Ron Ralph <ronra...@austin.rr.com>
To: jputnam1...@att.net
Cc: Texas Cavers <Texascavers@texascavers.com>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 1:56 PM
Subject: Texas Memorial Museum demise
Mary,
How did it go giving the petition to Dean Hicke?
Ron
You are receiving this e-mail through the Texas Exes Alumni Directory. Your
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UT grads to contact you at www.texasexes.org/directory.
Dear Ronald, My name is Mary Newcomb, daughter of William W. Newcomb, an
anthropology professor and Director of the Texas Memorial Museum for many
years. You may have heard that the College of Natural Sciences will cut all
funding - $620,000 – to the museum beginning next year. This is a travesty that
can not be tolerated! My husband and I have started a grassroots effort called
Save the Texas Memorial Museum. Our goal is to gather many thousand signatures
on a protest petition and deliver it to Dean Hicke of the College of Natural
Sciences on Jan. 15, 2014 – the 75th anniversary of the museum’s opening. We
have a Facebook page and a group on meetup.com, where details of our first
meeting are. Please “Like” us on Facebook and RSVP on meetup.com. You can sign
the petition in person at our first gathering, the details of which are on
meetup.com. Or, we will email you the petition which you can sign and mail back
to us. Thank you in advance for your support! Kindest regards, Mary Newcomb and
Jeri Putnam
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that seems highly unlikely; there's a police station two blocks away that's
more likely a target, and the old middle school, etc. You don't take down
buildings to put up parking lots -- you turn parking lots into parking garages,
and there's still a lot of that to be infilled
k
On Jan 17, 2014, at 3:35 PM, James Jasek wrote:
If this is true there is no way to stop the project. I hope the museum contents
will be preserved
Jim
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:59 PM, Andy Gluesenkamp
<andrew_gluesenk...@yahoo.com<mailto:andrew_gluesenk...@yahoo.com>> wrote:
Word is that the property the museum sits on is slated to become another
parking lot. That's a goo money maker (so close to the stadium). Who says
athletics doesn't rob from academics?
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:49 PM, Katherine Arens
<ar...@austin.utexas.edu<mailto:ar...@austin.utexas.edu>> wrote:
Amen to that. To those of you who are mad you can no longer park free anywhere
at UT, this is another innovation of the current regime: our facilities are
"underutilized" and need to be charged "at current rates." So the little guys
get nickled and dimed to death, and the state of Texas loses important
resources and resource stewardship. Real Americans pay for their parking, you
see . . .(how's the parking at A&M?)
k
On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Diana Tomchick wrote:
Wouldn't it also be productive to look into a different funding source? Money
is tight in all areas of academia these days, and especially in the sciences.
Why not try going straight to the politicians there in Austin, they're the ones
that control how much money winds up at UT and the College of Natural Sciences?
Diana
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Diana R. Tomchick
Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Biophysics
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Rm. ND10.214A
Dallas, TX 75390-8816, U.S.A.
Email:
diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu<mailto:diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu>
214-645-6383 (phone)
214-645-6353 (fax)
On Jan 17, 2014, at 1:56 PM, Ron Ralph wrote:
Mary,
How did it go giving the petition to Dean Hicke?
Ron
You are receiving this e-mail through the Texas Exes Alumni Directory. Your
address has not been disclosed to the sender of the e-mail, but has been
forwarded to you on their behalf. You can update your profile and allow other
UT grads to contact you at
www.texasexes.org/directory<http://www.texasexes.org/directory>.
Dear Ronald, My name is Mary Newcomb, daughter of William W. Newcomb, an
anthropology professor and Director of the Texas Memorial Museum for many
years. You may have heard that the College of Natural Sciences will cut all
funding - $620,000 – to the museum beginning next year. This is a travesty that
can not be tolerated! My husband and I have started a grassroots effort called
Save the Texas Memorial Museum. Our goal is to gather many thousand signatures
on a protest petition and deliver it to Dean Hicke of the College of Natural
Sciences on Jan. 15, 2014 – the 75th anniversary of the museum’s opening. We
have a Facebook page and a group on meetup.com<http://meetup.com/>, where
details of our first meeting are. Please “Like” us on Facebook and RSVP on
meetup.com<http://meetup.com/>. You can sign the petition in person at our
first gathering, the details of which are on meetup.com<http://meetup.com/>.
Or, we will email you the petition which you can sign and mail back to us.
Thank you in advance for your support! Kindest regards, Mary Newcomb and Jeri
Putnam
________________________________
UT Southwestern Medical Center
The future of medicine, today.
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ar...@austin.utexas.edu<mailto:ar...@austin.utexas.edu> Dept. Phone: (512)
471-4123
Dept. of Germanic Studies FAX (512) 471-4025
2505 University Ave, C3300 Bldg.Location: Burdine 336
University of Texas at Austin Office: Burdine 320
Austin, TX 78712-1802
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As the old song goes, they're tearing down paradise to put up a parking lot.
CC: diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu; jputnam1...@att.net;
Texascavers@texascavers.com
From: andrew_gluesenk...@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:59:35 -0600
To: ar...@austin.utexas.edu
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Texas Memorial Museum demise
Word is that the property the museum sits on is slated to become another
parking lot. That's a goo money maker (so close to the stadium). Who says
athletics doesn't rob from academics?
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:49 PM, Katherine Arens <ar...@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
Amen to that. To those of you who are mad you can no longer park free anywhere
at UT, this is another innovation of the current regime: our facilities are
"underutilized" and need to be charged "at current rates." So the little guys
get nickled and dimed to death, and the state of Texas loses important
resources and resource stewardship. Real Americans pay for their parking, you
see . . .(how's the parking at A&M?)
k
On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Diana Tomchick wrote:
Wouldn't it also be productive to look into a different funding source? Money
is tight in all areas of academia these days, and especially in the sciences.
Why not try going straight to the politicians there in Austin, they're the ones
that control how much money winds up at UT and the College of Natural Sciences?
Diana
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Diana R. Tomchick
Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Biophysics
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Rm. ND10.214A
Dallas, TX 75390-8816, U.S.A.
Email: diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu
214-645-6383 (phone)
214-645-6353 (fax)
On Jan 17, 2014, at 1:56 PM, Ron Ralph wrote:
Mary,
How did it go giving the petition to Dean Hicke?
Ron
You are receiving this e-mail through the Texas Exes Alumni Directory. Your
address has not been disclosed to the sender of the e-mail, but has been
forwarded to you on their behalf. You can update your profile and allow other
UT grads to contact you at www.texasexes.org/directory.
Dear Ronald, My name is Mary Newcomb, daughter of William W. Newcomb, an
anthropology professor and Director of the Texas Memorial Museum for many
years. You may have heard that the College of Natural Sciences will cut all
funding - $620,000 – to the museum beginning next year. This is a travesty that
can not be tolerated! My husband and I have started a grassroots effort called
Save the Texas Memorial Museum. Our goal is to gather many thousand signatures
on a protest petition and deliver it to Dean Hicke of the College of Natural
Sciences on Jan. 15, 2014 – the 75th anniversary of the museum’s opening. We
have a Facebook page and a group on meetup.com, where details of our first
meeting are. Please “Like” us on Facebook and RSVP on meetup.com. You can sign
the petition in person at our first gathering, the details of which are on
meetup.com. Or, we will email you the petition which you can sign and mail back
to us. Thank you in advance for your support! Kindest regards, Mary Newcomb and
Jeri Putnam
________________________________
UT Southwestern Medical Center
The future of medicine, today.
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Katherine Arens Office Phone: (512) 232-6363
ar...@austin.utexas.edu Dept. Phone: (512) 471-4123
Dept. of Germanic Studies FAX (512) 471-4025
2505 University Ave, C3300 Bldg.Location: Burdine 336
University of Texas at Austin Office: Burdine 320
Austin, TX 78712-1802
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That came from TMM staff.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 17, 2014, at 4:34 PM, Katherine Arens <ar...@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
> that seems highly unlikely; there's a police station two blocks away that's
> more likely a target, and the old middle school, etc. You don't take down
> buildings to put up parking lots -- you turn parking lots into parking
> garages, and there's still a lot of that to be infilled
> k
> On Jan 17, 2014, at 3:35 PM, James Jasek wrote:
>
>> If this is true there is no way to stop the project. I hope the museum
>> contents will be preserved
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:59 PM, Andy Gluesenkamp <andrew_gluesenk...@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Word is that the property the museum sits on is slated to become another
>>> parking lot. That's a goo money maker (so close to the stadium). Who
>>> says athletics doesn't rob from academics?
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:49 PM, Katherine Arens <ar...@austin.utexas.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Amen to that. To those of you who are mad you can no longer park free
>>>> anywhere at UT, this is another innovation of the current regime: our
>>>> facilities are "underutilized" and need to be charged "at current rates."
>>>> So the little guys get nickled and dimed to death, and the state of Texas
>>>> loses important resources and resource stewardship. Real Americans pay
>>>> for their parking, you see . . .(how's the parking at A&M?)
>>>> k
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Diana Tomchick wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Wouldn't it also be productive to look into a different funding source?
>>>>> Money is tight in all areas of academia these days, and especially in the
>>>>> sciences. Why not try going straight to the politicians there in Austin,
>>>>> they're the ones that control how much money winds up at UT and the
>>>>> College of Natural Sciences?
>>>>>
>>>>> Diana
>>>>>
>>>>> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>>>>> Diana R. Tomchick
>>>>> Professor
>>>>> University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
>>>>> Department of Biophysics
>>>>> 5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
>>>>> Rm. ND10.214A
>>>>> Dallas, TX 75390-8816, U.S.A.
>>>>> Email: diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu
>>>>> 214-645-6383 (phone)
>>>>> 214-645-6353 (fax)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 17, 2014, at 1:56 PM, Ron Ralph wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Mary,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How did it go giving the petition to Dean Hicke?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ron
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You are receiving this e-mail through the Texas Exes Alumni Directory.
>>>>>> Your address has not been disclosed to the sender of the e-mail, but has
>>>>>> been forwarded to you on their behalf. You can update your profile and
>>>>>> allow other UT grads to contact you at www.texasexes.org/directory.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Ronald, My name is Mary Newcomb, daughter of William W. Newcomb, an
>>>>>> anthropology professor and Director of the Texas Memorial Museum for
>>>>>> many years. You may have heard that the College of Natural Sciences will
>>>>>> cut all funding - $620,000 – to the museum beginning next year. This is
>>>>>> a travesty that can not be tolerated! My husband and I have started a
>>>>>> grassroots effort called Save the Texas Memorial Museum. Our goal is to
>>>>>> gather many thousand signatures on a protest petition and deliver it to
>>>>>> Dean Hicke of the College of Natural Sciences on Jan. 15, 2014 – the
>>>>>> 75th anniversary of the museum’s opening. We have a Facebook page and a
>>>>>> group on meetup.com, where details of our first meeting are. Please
>>>>>> “Like” us on Facebook and RSVP on meetup.com. You can sign the petition
>>>>>> in person at our first gathering, the details of which are on
>>>>>> meetup.com. Or, we will email you the petition which you can sign and
>>>>>> mail back to us. Thank you in advance for your support! Kindest regards,
>>>>>> Mary Newcomb and Jeri Putnam
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>>
>>>>> UT Southwestern Medical Center
>>>>> The future of medicine, today.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>> Katherine Arens Office Phone: (512) 232-6363
>>>> ar...@austin.utexas.edu
>>>> Dept. Phone: (512) 471-4123
>>>> Dept. of Germanic Studies
>>>> FAX (512) 471-4025
>>>> 2505 University Ave, C3300
>>>> Bldg.Location: Burdine 336
>>>> University of Texas at Austin
>>>> Office: Burdine 320
>>>> Austin, TX 78712-1802
>>>>
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> Dept. Phone: (512) 471-4123
> Dept. of Germanic Studies
> FAX (512) 471-4025
> 2505 University Ave, C3300
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> University of Texas at Austin
> Office: Burdine 320
> Austin, TX 78712-1802
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