From galya@u.washington.edu Thu Jan 26 18:02:53 PST 1995 >From galya@u.washington.edu Thu Jan 26 18:02:53 1995 Return-Path: Received: from carson-oms1.u.washington.edu by lists.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW94.10/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA20521; Thu, 26 Jan 95 18:02:53 -0800 Received: from carson.u.washington.edu by carson-oms1.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW94.10/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA16740; Thu, 26 Jan 95 18:02:52 -0800 Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 18:02:51 -0800 (PST) From: Galya Diment To: slavic-uw@u.washington.edu, Kurt Engelmann Subject: OLYMPIA Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The hearing, I felt (and I would like other people's input on it as well), was quite successful. There were probably close to twenty (?), thirty (?) of us all in all, and even though only eight got to testify such a good showing was, no doubt, in our favor. Senator Quigley introduced the bill, then four of us spoke in its favor, then Acting Provost Thorud spoke against it (and was, it seems to me, rather misleading with his "facts"), then four more of us again spoke in favor of it. The remarkable thing was how sympathetic the committee was. One of them talked about having directly benefited from our presence on campus and her participation in Seattle-Tashkent activities, another evoked her Polish background and suggested it would be a personal loss to her if Polish is no longer taught anywhere in the state of Washington. Then it also turned out that yet another senator was of Polish descent, and one more actually wanted our help to establish the sister-city connection in his district. (All in all there were six senators -- so most of them had something encouraging to say to us.) After the meeting several of us gave a pretty extensive interview to a reporter from the Daily, and the story should appear tomorrow. Galya .