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2 total messages Started by Stephe Lewis Foskett Mon, 23 Nov 1992 12:28

#21

Author: Stephe Lewis Foskett
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 12:28

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About Pugwash:

Pugwash is an international organization founded by and dedicated to the
ideals of Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell in relation to the creation
of rational technology policy.  Student Pugwash USA has chapters in many 
High Schools and Universities, and there are similar organizations for
educational chapters in other countries.  Senior Pugwash is a similar
group serving the scientific community worldwide.

At the 1992 Student Pugwash USA Chapter Organizing Workshop, it was
decided, and thus voted, that a UseNet newsgroup should be created for
discussion of Pugwash related topics.  It was further decided that I
should try to create this newsgroup.

Pugwash believes that people will make proper decisions if they think about
the social implications of their actions.  To this end, Pugwash suggests
open discussion about ethical concerns without excluding people for a supposed
lack of knowledge on their part.

About the alt.pugwash newsgroup:

It is a forum for people to bring up and discuss a wide variety of
Science, Society, and Technology issues.  Some sample topics discussed
at Pugwash meetings are:  Biotechnology, Overpopulation, Environmental
Pollution, and Biodiversity.  Many other topics lend themselves to
Pugwash discussion as well.

Questions/comments about pugwash-related topics should be posted here.
Questions/comments about the technicalities of this newesgroup should
be emailed to pugwash@wpi.wpi.edu.

enjoy!
--
- so spake lancer@wpi.wpi.edu -      - so speaks Diamanda Galas: -
-      What sympathy in death discloses, we who fester here      -
-   are very much alive, and watch unmanned compassion flee to   -
-   safer zones...  Let us praise the masters of slow death...   -

Great!

#23

Author: Jeffrey Porten
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:17

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Good to see the newsgroup up and running!  

For all of you folks who showed up to talk about Captain Pugwash, sorry,
that's not what we're about.  (We considered adopting him as an unofficial
logo a few years ago, but then someone told us about the whole Seaman
Stains bit.)  

I have some of our literature on disk, and I'll be posting it here to
give people an idea of what it is we do.  In the meantime, feel free
to ask questions.

Anyone care to post a summary of the goings-on at the Middlebury Conference
this past weekend?  (Sorry I couldn't make it.)

Jeff Porten
Chapter Advisory Council Co-Chair 
(Elections in January!)



--
Jeff Porten, Annenberg School for Communication, UPenn
             Graduate Group in American Civilization, UPenn

As per usual, my opinions are my own, not Penn's, Pugwash's, or anyone else's.

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