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SocNet &PoliNet
SocNet & PoliNet are newly-created a-mail facilities aimed at academics . Just like the late, lamented (and
somewhat ambiguous) network analysis on EIES experiment a few years ago, these networks are designed to
let departments and faculty communicate using e-mail, computer conferencing, newsletters and specialty
topic-oriented bulletin boards . Access thru microcomputers, modems via either the TYMNET or UNINET
systems . (TYMNET is available in the US, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, Indonesia, Japan & several
other nations .) There's an Advisory Board of luminaries--none of whom are network analysts or persons
with experience on the EIES network . Membership (1-time fee) is US$100 for departments & US$29 .95 for
individuals . Connect time rates are $16/hr (day), $6/hr (nites & weekends) .
Info from Frank Howell, Social Science Research & Institutional Computing Lab, North Carolina State U, Box
8101, Raleigh NC 27695 . Howell has an article hyping the nets in recent issue of SOCIAL SCIENCE MICRO-
COMPUTER REVIEW (which he edits) .
(Ed .'s note : I'd appreciate receiving comments from those joining SocNet . I'm rather skeptical of the
hype--and the costs after the grants run out .)
Please Give Us Your Electronic Mail Addresses
As the preceding 2 announcements indicate, electronic mail/computer conferencing is growing rapidly . Some
INSNA folks have suggested that we include electronic mail addresses in the next Directory . Please fill out
this portion of your renewal form .
You may already be on an e-mail system without knowing it . May big universities are already connected,
mainframe-to-mainframe, thru BITNET (USA), NETNORTH (Canada), EARNET (Europe) & Janet (British understatement--avoiding
capitals) . To communicate with you, people need to know your personal logon name & your
university's network node name (altho the latter is often publically available in network directories . To
communicate with INSNA send a message to WELLMAN at UTOREPAS . (Note do not send it to UTORONTO--it's the
wrong computer .)
Networkers Without Ties
Can you believe it Only 4 folks wanted to buy an Old Boys Network tie . Offer cancelled . Check Loehmanns
for remainders .
Info Flows
Rob HISCOTT (Soc, Queen's, Canada), former Assistant Editor, awarded Toronto Ph .D . . .Karen CAMPBELL appointed
Assistant Prof . of Soc at Vanderbilt . . .Katherine FAUST appointed Assistant Prof . of Psych at Illinois . . .
Ron BURT appointed Chair at Columbia Soc . . . John DELANY now seeing corporate interlocks from the inside as
the Account Supervisor in charge of the Continental Illinois Bank account for Fallon , McElligot Rice, a
Minneapolis advertising agency . . .Joanne MILLER appointed to Soc, Queens (NYC) & Russell Sage Foundation . . .
Nick MULLINS now Prof of Soc at Virginia Tech . . .Carolyn MULLINS is Associate Prof . of English at Virginia
Tech, teaching them to write real good science papers . . .John BOLLAND now Research Associate at Inst . for
Soc . Sci . Res ., U of Alabama . . .Mark GRANOVETTER promoted to Prof . of Soc, SUNY-Stony Brook . . . Ditto for
Mike SCHWARTZ . . . Douglas HOFSTADTER now "Professor of Human Understanding" at Michigan (aren't we all) . . .
Jane HOOD now at Soc, New Mexico-Albuquerque . . . Noah FRIEDKIN's (Ed, Cal-Santa Barbara) had a baby . . . Robert
BRYM (Soc, Toronto) new Editor of CANADIAN REVIEW OF SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY-Steve HOBFOLL (Psych, Tel
Aviv) new Associate Editor of JOURNAL OF SOCIAL & PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS . . .Melinda CUTHBERT (Soc, Yale)
nominated for Cdn . Soc & Anthro Assoc's Committee for the Status of Women . . .Mike USEEM appointed Assoc
Dean of Liberal Arts at Boston U . . .Clifford Clogg (Soc, Penn St) new Editor of SOCIOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY . . .
Ron BREIGER, Nancy HOWELL are each spending the year at the Ctr . for Advanced Studies in the Soc Scis, Palo
Alto, CA . . . Bonnie ERICKSON promoted to Prof . at Toronto, (Soc) . . . Joel LEVINE promoted to Prof . at Math/Social
Sciences, Dartmouth . . .Simon LANGLOIS (Soc, Laval) elected President de l'Association Canadienne des
Sociologues de Language Francaise . . .Mike WEINSTEIN elected President, Hawaii Sociological Assoc . &
appointed Grad . Chair, Soc, Hawaii . . . James KUKLINSKI appointed Asst Director, Survey Res . Lab, U Illinois . . .
Former CONNECTIONS typist, Maria JACOBS appointed Literary Editor of CANADIAN WOMEN'S STUDIES . (She's
also Editor of Poetry Toronto & Asst Ed . of the CANADIAN JOURNAL OF GENETICS & CYTOLOGY .) . . .Eliot LIEBOW
(ex-NIMH) new retired--can be reached at 301-593-6030 . . . Charles TILLY ( Hist & Soc, New School) appointed
first Reviews Editor of new SOCIOLOGICAL FORUM (more on this below) . . .Fernand BRAUDEL (Hist, College de
France) dead at 83 . . . Reuben HILL ( Soc, Minn) died of a heart attack . . . Alex LEE (Nancy Howell's son) died
in a truck crash in the Kalahari this summer . . .Frank SIMS (Soc, Penn St) died recently after a lengthy
illness . . . And finally I note the passing of E .B . White, the longtime author of THE NEW YORKER's "Talk
of the Town" section . I hope the scientist types who read this don't get too upset, but one of the main
reasons I edit CONNECTIONS (& write NETWORK NOTEBOOK) is to try to be a little like E .B . White--at least
a few times a year .