[Vision2020] Moscow Looks So Much Nicer . . .

[Nicholas Gier]

Hi Tom,

That was a wonderful tribute to Moscow.  Your Moscow Cares site will stand
as one of the most significant contributions to our history ever.  Thanks
for all that you do.

Thanks, Ken, for pointing out the decrease in UI faculty. Your figures
included all "exempt" employees, which would include some lower management
employees.  Academic faculty in the ranks of assistant, associate, and full
professor have gone down from a high of 619 to 506 in FY2009.

This does not include lecturers and adjuncts, which actually may have
increased.  Tenure "tracks" are disappearing one track at a time all over
the nation. The percentage of tenured to non-tenured used to be about
60-40, but now it is just the opposite.  Itinerant academics now wander
from term year appointments to another (or one semester at a time for the
most unfortunate) with no job security, no retirement, and little or no
benefits.

One more aspect of a declining America that has bought the motto "No New
Taxes."  Americans will live to regret this short-sightedness and their
children and grandchildren will suffer for it.

Nick
Nick

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Kris Freitag <kfreitag at roadrunner.com>wrote:

> I personally thought the montage was pretty cool. Should have had a longer
> pause between the pictures though.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
> To: "Kenneth Marcy" <kmmos1 at frontier.com>
> Cc: "Lois Blackburn" <LoisB at q.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>; "B J
> Swanson" <bjswanson at gmail.com>; "Jeanne McHale" <jeannemchale at hotmail.com>;
> "Donna Woolston" <appearances at mail.moscow.com>; "Dinah Zeiger" <
> dzeiger at uidaho.edu>; "Kathleen Burns" <kburns at ci.moscow.id.us>
> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 11:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Moscow Looks So Much Nicer . . .
>
>
>  My intent was NOT to imply that Moscow was horrible in times previous to
>> today, but merely to introduce the video I had created reflecting on the
>> transformation of Main Street over the years.
>>
>> My apologies to anyone who may have misunderstand my intent.
>>
>> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>>
>> Tom Hansen
>> Moscow, Idaho
>>
>> "If not us, who?
>> If not now, when?"
>>
>> - Unknown
>>
>> On Nov 17, 2011, at 10:24 PM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:
>>
>>  On Thursday, November 17, 2011 07:03:59 PM Tom Hansen wrote:
>>>
>>>> . . . down on Main Street.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=VB2bqSUBZ5M<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB2bqSUBZ5M>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, well, it wasn't so bad back in the days when the smell of freshly
>>> sawn
>>> wood emanated from the bookshelves in the new bookstore on the east side
>>> of
>>> the street, and it was possible to walk across to the west side of the
>>> street
>>> and get a Spruceburger and a beer.
>>>
>>> Mort's was still around. Whether their bookkeeper really did do the
>>> books just
>>> for what he could drink -- and was overpaid -- I don't know.
>>>
>>> Pitchers and pizza were available further south down the street at
>>> Rathaus -- then in a building big enough to hold an airplane and its
>>> passengers.
>>>
>>> Those were the days before someone had the effrontery to worry about a
>>> random,
>>> errant apostrophe between t and s in a possessive non-contraction as its.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>
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