Thu, 13 Oct 1994 18:43:58 -0700 for <socgrad@ucsd.edu>
Date:         Thu, 13 Oct 94 21:33:15 EDT
From: Alan <DAVIDSON@uconnvm.uconn.edu>
To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU
     Being a somewhat early socgradder myself, Laura is right.  We even
took a vote and basically decided that if faculty members wanted to be
on this list, there was no way of stopping them, and they can even be
helpful given that an important latent function of this list is
professional socialization and networking.  We even have a faculty member here
who has been encouraging new grad. students to sign up for the list.  As for
potentially "vindictive" faculty members, don't worry.  If they don't give
you the time of day in your dept., they are unlikely to get excited by this
list either.  By the way, is there a listserv command which could be used
to discover who is on the list?

     Also, as of yet I have found one non-sociologist of religion at The
University of New Mexico who is going to be in Albuquerque from Nov. 3 through
Nov. 6.  It would be nice if there other socgradders into religion lurking
somewhere.  If there is, come forward and we might plan something.