Here's the real story: (I had wondered ... ) ------ Liz
>Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:00:34 -0600
>To: mwhite@mail.utexas.edu, s.ardis@mail.utexas.edu, ldallas@mail.utexas.edu,
> drtgeol@mail.utexas.edu, n.elder@mail.utexas.edu,
> j.haas@mail.utexas.edu, wjkopplin@mail.utexas.edu,
> liz@utmsi.utexas.edu
>From: David Flaxbart <flaxbart@uts.cc.utexas.edu>
>Subject: Re: Inflammatory anti-librarian article
>
>FYI, some joke, huh?
>
> David
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>Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 16:33:04 -0800
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>From: MARION C PETERS <mpeters@LIBRARY.UCLA.EDU>
>Subject: Re: Inflammatory anti-librarian article
>
>Sandra and others,
>As you can imagine, the message in today's Daily Bruin at UCLA has
>caused quite a stir. However, before you take pen in hand, you may
>want to see Sony Barari's response to one letter writer which was
>forwarded to me by a colleague. Marion
>
>Marion Peters
>UCLA Science & Engineering Library
>(310)825-0190
>
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>Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 13:59:50 -0700
>From: Jeff Rowan <jrowan@DU.EDU>
>To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
>Subject: Fw: Library Science editorial
>
>----- Original Message---------------------------------
>From: Sony Barari
>To: Jeff Rowan
>Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 1:46 PM
>Subject: Re: Library Science editorial
>
>Dear Jeff,
>
>I just wanted to take a moment to go ahead and apologize if my article
>has offended you. It was written solely with the intention of
>providing a piece of comic material to UCLA students. The intention,
>however obscured that it may have been, was certainly not to belittle
>the library profession, but rather to poke fun at the misguided
>misconceptions people have about many things that they do not
>completely understand. This has been a recurring theme in a series of
>Daily Bruin articles over the past couple weeks. I'll be the first to
>admit that my article is grossly cursory in nature in regards to
>library science. I actually did take the time to research the
>profession, and understand that it is indeed a valuable institution to
>our society. It'd be idiotic of me or anyone else to think otherwise,
>and I hope that this common sense overshadows the propagation of any
>contrary opinion. Sometimes exaggeration is the key to comedy (I've
>never been close to a D-), and the "uninformed" opinion that you may
>find so offensive is actually an indictment of the propensity for our
>society to form opinions based on soley superficial foundations. Thank
>you for taking the time to write to me, and once again I apologize.
>
>-Sony Barari
>
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