Date:         Wed, 16 Oct 96 07:33:23 EDT
From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Organization: Central Michigan University
Subject:      Judgment
To: GRADUATE STUDENTS IN SOCIOLOGY <SOCGRAD@CSF.COLORADO.EDU>
Message-Id:   <961016.074900.EDT.34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
I have given considerable thought to the question of my role on
the Socgrad Network.  After reading the many posts and weighing
the pros and cons of faculty participation on what is and should
properly be, a graduate student forum, I have come to a decision.

1.  I will finish this, the third year of the lectures.

2.  After that, I will:

    a.  Set up a home page for grad students and solicit a variety
        of contributions each week from faculty around the country
        who, I believe, are doing useful work to transform American
        Sociology toward a more progressive and participatory
        practice.

    b.  Remain on Socgrad as mentor, critic and friend.

    c.  Work with Christine White at Oklahoma State to compile
        the mini-lectures from these three years in an archives
        which will be available to future grad students.

3.  During this and the next semester, I will take the criticism of
    Christian and others to heart; I will try to be a bit less
    an authority and a bit more a colleague.

Finally, I would like to thank both Christian and his many supporters
for the points he/they made...it has not escaped my attention that,
were I still a grad student, I would have made the same points
and probably with less good grace.  And, of course, I thank most
kindly those who have taked the trouble to give me the kind of
encouragement which warms the heart and energizes the spirit.

                                                               TR