Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!princeton!pucc!PSYCH@TCSVM From: harnad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Stevan Harnad) Newsgroups: sci.psychology.digest Subject: PSYCOLOQUY V1 #11 (announcements : 504 lines) Message-ID: <9008241734.AA04344@reason.Princeton.EDU> Date: 24 Aug 90 17:41:17 GMT Sender: VMNNPOST@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Listserv to Netnews Gateway) Organization: Listserv to Netnews Gateway at pucc.Princeton.EDU Lines: 499 Approved: PSYCH@TCSVM PSYCOLOQUY Fri, 24 Aug 90 Volume 1 : Issue 11 Action Alert IAPSY-L, Interamerican Psychologists List Postmodern Culture COMPSYCH Information Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: APA Science Directorate Subject: Action Alert APA Science Directorate Action Alert NOTE FROM: Lewis P. Lipsitt, Ph.D., APA Executive Director for Science THIS IS A REQUEST FOR YOU TO CONTACT YOUR SENATORS ABOUT RESEARCH FUNDING CUTS NOW BEING CONSIDERED TO MEET THE CONGRESSIONALLY MANDATED GRAMM-RUDMAN DEFICIT TARGET. BECAUSE YOU RECEIVE THE SCIENCE DIRECTORATE'S RESEARCH FUNDING BULLETIN AND HAVE A SPECIAL INTEREST IN RESEARCH FUNDING, IT IS IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO BE AWARE OF THIS CRITICAL SITUATION AND TO RESPOND TO IT BY WRITING OR CALLING YOUR SENATORS. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * URGENT!! CUTS IN FEDERAL RESEARCH SPENDING OF UP TO 32% ARE CONTEMPLATED!! THE SCIENCE DIRECTORATE URGES YOU TO WRITE YOUR TWO SENATORS TODAY!! Richard Darman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, directed federal agency heads this week to submit contingency plans for a 31.9% cut in domestic discretionary spending. The National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement are all considered discretionary programs under the Gramm- Rudman Deficit Reduction Act. If both Houses of Congress do not approve a budget that meets Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction targets, discretionary programs are automatically cut until the programmed reduction is achieved. How did this happen? Since May 15, Congressional leaders have been meeting with Administration leaders to reach an agreement on a combination of spending cuts and potential new revenues to meet the Gramm-Rudman target deficit of $64 billion for the 1991 fiscal year, which begins October 1. Under economic projections made early in the year, $37 billion in cuts, revenues or both were needed to meet the target. But the mounting costs of the federal savings and loan bailout, the potential cost of U.S. troop support in Saudi Arabia, and the expected rise in fuel costs due to the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait, have pushed up the projected deficit, and increased the amount of spending cuts and revenues necessary to reach the $64 billion target number. Because the negotiators have not reached agreement, the process established by the Gramm-Rudman Act will make a 31.9% cut mandatory unless the stalemate is broken soon. Congressional leaders may think that some mandatory cuts are needed for the federal government to meet the $64 billion target. The Science Directorate strongly believes that ANY cut under the Gramm-Rudman framework will adversely affect federal research, particularly psychological research. We urge you to contact your two Senators today either by phone or by sending a letter similar to the sample letter that follows. Your Senators must hear from their constituents who depend on federal research dollars! Otherwise they may assume that spending cuts are the lesser of two evils (and chances are that they are not anxious to vote for revenue increases in an election year). Modify the sample letter to reflect your own research and your university's circumstances; those points will carry the greatest weight. Send the Science Directorate copies of your letters, either via Bitnet (APASD@GWUVM) or mail (address below). We urge you, also, to contact others in your department and urge your colleagues or students to write. This issue is too important for us to sit on the sidelines and hope the outcome is one we can live with. If you have questions or comments, please contact either of us or Pat Kobor, Legislative and Federal Affairs Officer. Yours in support of research, Barbara J. Calkins Lewis P. Lipsitt, Ph.D. Director, Legislative & Federal Affairs Executive Director for Science APASDBJC@GWUVM APASDLPL@GWUVM Science Directorate American Psychological Association 1200 17th Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20036 SAMPLE LETTER SAMPLE LETTER SAMPLE LETTER SAMPLE LETTER The Honorable United States Senate Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Senator : As a research psychologist, I am very concerned about reports of a possible 32% cut in federal 1991 research spending to meet the Gramm-Rudman deficit target. Such cuts would be devastating to my department and to the important research conducted at my institution. (Insert your own paragraph here, describing your research.) I understand that the savings and loan bailout and events in the Middle East combined make this a stringent year for federal spending. But resorting to mandatory Gramm-Rudman cuts would be very damaging to the ongoing research at this university, for which, in many cases, multi-year funding commitments have been made. In some instances, lost jobs would result, and research could be interrupted that could not later be salvaged. I am sure I do not need to convince you of the value of federally- funded research. It is imperative that you communicate with budget negotiators the need to work out a solution that will not jeopardize research goals. The federal government has made a commitment to this institution, not only by helping train young psychological scientists but by funding basic and applied research to help solve national problems (e.g., mental illness, Alzheimers, learning disabilities, exposure to environmental toxins, low productivity in the workplace). Each year in which such major societal problems are NOT solved, it becomes more and more costly to our society. Cutting research is a false economy and it must not happen this year. Please let me know what steps you are taking to urge an end to the stalemate among the congressional and administration negotiators. Please work with your colleagues to reach an agreement that does not rely on heavy-handed Gramm-Rudman research cuts. I am very eager to receive your response. Sincerely yours, SENATORS (Room numbers beginning with SR are in the Russell Building, SD are in the Dirksen Building and SH are in the Hart Building) SUITE TELEPHONE NUMBER Vice President Quayle, Dan (IN) SD-202 42424 ADAMS, Brock (WA) SH-513 42621 AKAKA, Daniel (HI) SH-109 46361 ARMSTRONG, William L. (CO) SH-528 45941 BAUCUS, Max (MT) SH-706 42651 BENTSEN, Lloyd (TX) SH-703 45922 BIDEN, Jr., Joseph R. (DE) SR-221 45042 BINGAMAN, Jeff (NM) SH-524 45521 BOND, Christopher S. (MO) SR-293 45721 BOREN, David L. (OK) SR-453 44721 BOSCHWITZ, Rudy (MN) SH-506 45641 BRADLEY, Bill (NJ) SH-731 43224 BREAUX, John B. (LA) SH-516 44623 BRYAN, Richard H. (NV) SR-364 46244 BUMPERS, Dale (AR) SD-229 44843 BURDICK, Quentin N. (ND) SH-511 42551 BURNS, Conrad (MT) SD-183 42644 BYRD, Robert C. (WV) SH-311 43954 CHAFEE, John H. (RI) SD-567 42921 COATS, Dan (IN) SR-411 45623 COCHRAN, Thad (MS) SR-326 45054 COHEN, William S. (ME) SH-322 42523 CONRAD, Kent (ND) SD-361 42043 CRANSTON, Alan (CA) SH-112 43553 D'AMATO, Alfonse M. (NY) SH-520 46542 DANFORTH, John C. (MO) SR-249 46154 DASCHLE, Thomas A. (SD) SH-317 42321 DeCONCINI, Dennis (AZ) SH-328 44521 DIXON, Alan J. (IL) SH-331 42854 DODD, Christopher J. (CT) SR-444 42823 DOLE, Robert (KS) SH-141 46521 DOMENICI, Pete V. (NM) SD-434 46621 DURENBERGER, Dave (MN) SR-154 43244 EXON, J. James (NE) SH-330 44224 FORD, Wendell H. (KY) SR-173A 44343 FOWLER, Jr., Wyche (GA) SR-204 43643 GARN, Jake (UT) SD-505 45444 GLENN, John (OH) SH-503 43353 GORE, Jr., Albert (TN) SR-393 44944 GORTON, Slade (WA) SH-730 43441 GRAHAM, Bob (FL) SD-241 43041 GRAMM, Phil (TX) SR-370 42934 GRASSLEY, Charles E. (IA) SH-135 43744 HARKIN, Tom (IA) SH-316 43254 HATCH, Orrin G. (UT) SR-135 45251 HATFIELD, Mark O. (OR) SH-711 43753 HEFLIN, Howell (AL) SH-728 44124 HEINZ, John (PA) SR-277 46324 HELMS, Jesse (NC) SD-403 46342 HOLLINGS, Ernest F. (SC) SR-125 46121 HUMPHREY, Gordon J. (NH) SH-531 42841 INOUYE, Daniel K. (HI) SH-722 43934 JEFFORDS, James M. (VT) SD-530 45141 JOHNSTON, J. Bennett (LA) SH-136 45824 KASSEBAUM, Nancy Landon (KS) SR-302 44774 KASTEN, Jr., Robert W. (WI) SH-110 45323 KENNEDY, Edward M. (MA) SR-315 44543 KERREY, J. Robert (NE) SH-302 46551 KERRY, John F. (MA) SR-421 42742 KOHL, Herbert (WI) SH-702 45653 LAUTENBERG, Frank R. (NJ) SH-717 44744 LEAHY, Patrick J. (VT) SR-433 44242 LEVIN, Carl (MI) SR-459 46221 LIEBERMAN, Joseph I. (CT) SH-502 44041 LOTT, Trent (MS) SR-487 46253 LUGAR, Richard G. (IN) SH-306 44814 MACK, Connie (FL) SH-517 45274 McCAIN, John (AZ) SR-111 42235 McCLURE, James A. (ID) SH-309 42752 McCONNELL, Mitch (KY) SR-120 42541 METZENBAUM, Howard M. (OH) SR-140 42315 MIKULSKI, Barbara A. (MD) SH-320 44654 MITCHELL, George J. (ME) SR-176 45344 MOYNIHAN, Daniel Patrick (NY) SR-464 44451 MURKOWSKI, Frank H. (AK) SH-709 46665 NICKLES, Don (OK) SH-713 45754 NUNN, Sam (GA) SD-303 43521 PACKWOOD, Bob (OR) SR-259 45244 PELL, Claiborne (RI) SR-335 44642 PRESSLER, Larry (SD) SH-133 45842 PRYOR, David (AR) SR-267 42353 REID, Harry (NV) SH-324 43542 RIEGLE, Jr., Donald W. (MI) SD-105 44822 ROBB, Charles S. (VA) SR-493 44024 ROCKEFELLER, IV, John D. (WV) SH-724 46472 ROTH, Jr., William V. (DE) SH-104 42441 RUDMAN, Warren (NH) SH-530 43324 SANFORD, Terry (NC) SH-716 43154 SARBANES, Paul S. (MD) SD-332 44524 SASSER, Jim (TN) SR-363 43344 SHELBY, Richard C. (AL) SH-313 45744 SIMON, Paul (IL) SD-462 42152 SIMPSON, Alan K. (WY) SD-261 43424 SPECTER, Arlen (PA) SH-303 44254 STEVENS, Ted (AK) SH-522 43004 SYMMS, Steven D. (ID) SH-509 46142 THURMOND, Strom (SC) SR-217 45972 WALLOP, Malcolm (WY) SR-237 46441 WARNER, John W. (VA) SR-225 42023 WILSON, Pete (CA) SH-720 43841 WIRTH, Timothy E. (CO) SR-380 45852 NOTE: Insert the room and Senate office building in the address of your letter. Write, for example, Senator Brock Adams, United States Senate, 513 Hart Building, Washington, DC 20510. All phone numbers begin with 224; thus Senator Adams's is (202) 224-2621. ------------------------------ From: "Bernardo M. Ferdman" Subject: IAPSY-L, Interamerican Psychologists List A new LISTSERV-based group for psychologists, IAPSY-L is based at ALBNYVM1. The list is intended to link psychologists throughout the Americas. Anyone interested in joining or in further information should write to the list co-ordinator, Bernardo Ferdman (BMF13@ALBNYVM1). * El proposito de IAPSY es facilitar y fomentar la comunicacion * y la colaboracion entre los psicologos de todas las Americas y * el Caribe, y ayudar en el trabajo de la Sociedad Interamericana * de Psicologia. Los idiomas de la lista son espan~ol, frances, * ingles, y portuges (los idiomas de la SIP). * * IAPSY is intended to facilitate and encourage communication and * collaboration among psychologists throughout the Americas and the * Caribbean, and to aid the Interamerican Society for Psychology/ * Sociedad Interamericana de Psicologia in its activities. The * languages of the list are English, French, Portuguese and Spanish * (the languages of the ISP). Bernardo M. Ferdman ______ Dept. of Psychology / | Dept. of Latin American and Caribbean Studies | | State University of New York at Albany _________ / | Albany, New York 12222 U.S.A. > | / * | E-mail: bmf13@albnyvm1.bitnet |_______________ | Telephone: (518) 442-4839 `_ | Fax: (518) 442-4867 | `__| ------------------------------ From: Eyal Amiran Subject: Postmodern Culture , a new electronic journal of interdisciplinary studies, will come out in September. is a juried, scholarly publication, and is available free on email. To subscribe write pmc@ncsuvm.bitnet or pmc@ncsuvm.ncsu.edu and ask to be subscribed. The journal solicits submissions--essays, reviews, fiction, scripts, poetry--relevant to contemporary literature, theory, and culture. I hope to hear from you soon. Virtually, Eyal Amiran, . ------------------------------ From: COMPSYCH%SNYPLAVA.BITNET@pucc Subject: COMPSYCH Information Service COMPSYCH - the computerized software information service for psychologists. COMPSYCH, developed by Margaret Anderson & Peter Hornby at SUNY Plattsburgh and David Bozak at SUNY Oswego, answers the need for up-to-date information about psychology software for instruction, research, and practice. The system provides four major services: (1) a catalog of descriptive information about available software, (2) a directory of software users, (3) a message system for sharing information among users, and (4) an announcement service for conferences, job openings, and other information. 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