[Vision2020] university of idaho press

[Joan Opyr]

Dear Visionaries:

In response to the UI's foolish and indefensible decision to close the UI 
Press, I sent the following letter to incoming president, Tim White.  His 
emai is tim.white@orst.edu.  I also sent slightly modified versions to Gary 
Michael and Linda Morris, and I join Bob Greene in encouraging all of you to 
do the same.

The UI Press made a quarter of a million dollars last year; the UI Athletic 
Department lost four million.  This is not a matter of financial extremity; 
it's a question of misplaced priorities.  And that, I'm afraid, is becoming 
a UI hallmark.

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment

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Dear Provost White:

I am writing to protest the closure of the University of Idaho Press.  This 
short-sighted move will hurt the university in reputation, in prestige, and 
in academic standing.  Please, I hope that you will urge outgoing president 
Gary Michael to reconsider this poor decision, or, as incoming president, to 
reverse it yourself.

Last year, the UI Press made a quarter of a million dollars.  (The UI 
Athletic Department, on the other hand, lost four million.)  The press was 
self-supporting and winning prizes for the quality of its published work.  
In a year of bleak failures and low morale for the university as a whole, 
the UI Press was a single, bright spot.  Closing it will do irreparable 
damage to an academic community whose reputation has already taken a 
considerable beating.

I hope that you will look into this situation and do the right thing.  Save 
the UI Press.

Yours sincerely,

Joan Opyr
Community member and UI supporter

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