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Syracuse University: Disciplinary Investigations of Satirical Law School Blog
Category: Due Process, Free Speech
Schools: Syracuse University
Syracuse University College of Law (SUCOL) student Len Audaer was told on October 18, 2010, that he was being investigated for harassment for his alleged involvement with the anonymous, satirical blog SUCOLitis about life in law school, which was meant to emulate The Onion. The blog included a disclaimer stating, "No actual news stories appear on the site." "Independent prosecutor" and SUCOL professor Gregory Germain had threatened Audaer with expulsion, without ever revealing what expression in particular justified the charges or even who was charging him. Just days after FIRE named Syracuse in The Huffington Post as one of the worst universities in the nation for free speech, Syracuse dropped the whole prosecution.
Victory: Syracuse University Drops Allegations Against Student Blogger
E-Mail from 'Independent Prosecutor' Gregory Germain, December 15, 2010
Gag Order Proposed by Professor Gregory Germain, December 12, 2010
Syracuse Response to FIRE, November 1, 2010
E-mail from Professor Gregory Germain to Len Audaer, October 15, 2010
'SUCOlitis' Blog Posts, October 12-18
'SUCOlitis' Blog Posts, October 7-11
"Where Do I Sue?" 'SUCOLitis,' October 19, 2010
2L Glad He's No Longer a 'Pariah' After Syracuse Drops Probe of Satirical Blog
February 2, 2011
A Syracuse University law student is feeling relief now that the school has dropped a harassment probe for his satirical blog posts. Syracuse ended the investigation after the student, Len Audaer, e-mailed apologies to several students who had complained about the SUCOLitis blog, which had used real names and fake quotes, according to the Post-Standard and the Daily Orange. Audaer says he was one of several people who contributed to the blog. Posts covered everything from urinal etiquette to attractive 1Ls to sex with a dead school administrator. "I think the one word that I feel right now is, 'elated,' […]» Read More
Law school gagging speech
December 19, 2010
A Law student at Syracuse University is facing possible expulsion for "harassment," but he doesn't know who his accusers are or even why he's in trouble. The source of all the trouble is a fake news blog called SUCOLitis. It's like The Onion, but it focuses on making fun of life in law school. In one post, the "Faculty Committee on Aesthetic Standards" names the Class of 2013 "Most Attractive in History." In another, a beer bong is elected class president. Harassment? Far from it. Very far, under any meaningful definition. Humor, parody and satire are huge parts of our […]» Read More
Law school student on 'Trial' for harassment
December 15, 2010
by Thomas Mitchell Las Vegas Review-Journal The textbook at Syracuse University College of Law must be Kafka's "The Trial." According to information posted on the website of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, yes, the acronym is FIRE, Syracuse law student Len Audaer has spent two months under the threat of harassment charges, supposedly related to content on a satirical WordPress blog called SUCOLitis, yes, your colitis in Spanish. The rub is: The university refuses to tell him who is his accuser or what he may have written that might constitute harassment. Now, says FIRE, the university is […]» Read More
Blog Satirizes Law-School Life, but Syracuse U. Officials Aren't Laughing
December 14, 2010
by Marc Parry The Chronicle of Higher Education SUCOLitis aspires to be something like The Onion of law-school life. The Syracuse, N.Y., satirical news blog has attracted thousands of views with fake headlines about beer pong, third-year students serving burritos, and the election of the university's "sexiest Semite." It delights in attributing fake quotes to students and faculty, as well as to famous alumni like Vice President Joe Biden, who is quoted as calling SUCOLitis "even funnier than me." Syracuse University officials aren't laughing. The law school has threatened "harassment" charges against a student who is allegedly a writer for the anonymous […]» Read More
Law Student Rights at Issue at SU
November 11, 2010
SYRACUSE, NY (wrvo) – A Syracuse University law student accused of harassment says the investigation itself has turned into a punishment with no trial. Len Audaer, a second-year law student at Syracuse University's College of Law, found out a month ago that the school is investigating him for harassment. Audaer was informed that he could face serious charges of violating the school's honor code, after complaints from un-named students about an anonymous blog called SUCOLitis. He was asked to meet with the faculty prosecutor assigned to the investigation, Prof. Gregory Germain, who said he could not discuss the case due […]» Read More
'Green Light' Policy Proposed to Replace 'Red Light' Speech Code at Syracuse
October 14, 2014
Syracuse University (SU) College of Law student Zachary Greenberg has inspired his peers to take a significant step toward revising an unconstitutional speech code: the university's overbroad and vague policy on online harassment. SU's only "red light" policy (that is, one that clearly and substantially restricts constitutionally protected speech) prohibits using the university computer system to send "annoying, abusive, profane, threatening, defamatory or offensive messages," and it was named FIRE's Speech Code of the Month for September 2013. Armed with policy analysis from FIRE, Greenberg has introduced a student government resolution that would replace the terms "annoying" and "offensive" with […]» Read More
Speech Code of the Month: Syracuse University
September 6, 2013
FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for September 2013: Syracuse University. Syracuse has just one "red light" speech code on its books, but it's a doozy. The university's Computing and Electronic Communications Policy (PDF) prohibits using its computer systems to send "offensive messages," including "sexually, ethnically, racially, or religiously offensive messages." This broad policy could apply to virtually any online expression that another person finds offensive, including earnest discussions of politically charged topics like immigration, affirmative action, and gay marriage. As such, it is wholly inconsistent with Syracuse's commitment to "freedom of discussion" and "the expression of dissent." […]» Read More
Censorship at Syracuse, Part II: No Excuse at Syracuse for Gagging Student Satire (VIDEO)
May 23, 2013
"Syracuse University tried to derail my legal career simply because of a blog that satirized life in law school." In 2010, Syracuse University College of Law (SUCOL) student Len Audaer was summoned to a meeting with Associate Professor of Law Gregory Germain, where he was told he was being investigated for "extremely serious" charges, which included allegations of "harassment." The charges being investigated stemmed from Audaer's alleged involvement with SUCOLitis, an anonymous, satirical blog about life in law school meant to emulate The Onion. "[The posts] were extremely frivolous in nature and there was nothing malicious about [them]," says Audaer […]» Read More
The Unique Free Speech Challenges Facing Student Satire and Humor
February 1, 2013
As we wrap up Free Press Week, we take a look today at the unique challenges that college students face when engaging in satire and humor on campus, from humor magazines and editorial cartoons to satirical flyers and blogs. Like newspaper theft and denial of newspaper funding (which we have already explored this week), this is an issue that FIRE has seen time and time again on university campuses over the years. For any number of reasons, parody, jokes, and satire-whether in print or otherwise—tend to rankle students and university administrators alike as few other forms of expression do. Consequently, […]» Read More
Gregory Germain Isn't the Only One at Syracuse Who Disdains Free Speech
February 15, 2012
Remember Syracuse University College of Law (SUCOL) "independent prosecutor" Gregory Germain, who complained at a law student meeting last year that "I think there are a lot of people who have a sense of entitlement to free speech"? He's at it again, this time in Syracuse's student newspaper, The Daily Orange, and he's not the only one disdainful of free speech rights. Journalist Debbie Truong's article, "A blurry line: Following criticism, faculty struggle to distinguish between free speech, harassment," shows that Syracuse has quite a long way to go just to define basic terms. For example, take harassment in the […]» Read More
Syracuse University's Student Paper Laments Poor Speech Code Rating
February 13, 2012
The editorial board of The Daily Orange, the daily student newspaper at Syracuse University (SU), writes today of the effect that FIRE's "red light" rating of the university's speech codes may have on future admissions numbers: If the trend of incidents involving free speech continues at SU, it may have an effect on application numbers. Students will not want to come to a school that has poor free speech rankings because it can make for an uncomfortable learning environment. The incidents at the College of Law and School of Education made headlines and applicants across the country could have heard […]» Read More
'SUCOLitis' Case at Syracuse Named One of 2010's Most Notable Events in 'Daily Orange'
August 24, 2011
As colleges and universities across the nation are welcoming back returning students and greeting the new ones, Syracuse University's (SU's) student newspaper The Daily Orange rounds up 10 notable events that happened during SU's 2010-11 academic year. Interestingly, the investigation of Syracuse University College of Law (SUCOL) student Len Audaer is on the list. Audaer was told on October 18, 2010, that he was being investigated for harassment for his alleged involvement with a blog called SUCOLitis, which was meant to emulate The Onion. The blog included a disclaimer stating, "No actual news stories appear on the site." Yet "independent […]» Read More
Victory: Syracuse University Drops Allegations Against Student Blogger
February 2, 2011
Syracuse University College of Law (SUCOL) has dropped its outrageous prosecution of law student Len Audaer more than three months after threatening him with severe punishment for "harassment" over his role in a fake-news parody blog about life in law school. "Independent prosecutor" and SUCOL professor Gregory Germain had threatened Audaer with expulsion over satire posted anonymously on the blog, SUCOLitis, without ever revealing what expression in particular justified the charges or even who was charging him. Audaer came to FIRE for help back in October 2010, after he was summoned to a meeting with SUCOL Associate Professor of Law […]» Read More
Victory: Syracuse University Drops Allegations Against Student Blogger
February 2, 2011
SYRACUSE, N.Y., Feb. 2, 2011—Syracuse University College of Law (SUCOL) has dropped its prosecution of law student Len Audaer more than three months after threatening him with severe punishment for "harassment" over his role in a fake-news parody blog about life in law school. "Independent prosecutor" and SUCOL professor Gregory Germain had threatened Audaer with expulsion over satire posted anonymously on the blog, SUCOLitis, without ever revealing what expression in particular justified the charges or even who was charging him. Audaer came to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help. "Sunlight has again proved one of the […]» Read More
Statement of February 1, 2011, from Len Audaer
February 1, 2011
It Ends February 1, 2011 Today I received a letter from Faculty Prosecutor Professor Gregory Germain via my lawyer Mark Blum. In the letter, Prof. Germain announced that he had decided that it was not in the best interests of the school to proceed with any charges. The SUCOLitis investigation is over, 109 days after it began. I am extremely relieved. Moreover I am indebted to my lawyer Mark Blum, to Adam Kissel and the good people of FIRE, and to my countless supporters and friends. Without them I could never have made it this far. Thank you.» Read More
Syracuse Law Student Apologizes, Claims 'School Betrays Promises Made In Negotiations'
January 31, 2011
Syracuse University and the Syracuse University College of Law have continued to botch the prosecution of an innocent student, but it looks like Syracuse might finally have a way out now that the student has apologized for having a role in the fake-news blog SUCOLitis. Law student Len Audaer has been under threat of expulsion for months for "harassment" because of the anonymous blog. Robert explained on Friday how Syracuse University Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina cemented his university's spot on FIRE's list of the 12 Worst Schools for Free Speech, which we published last week on The Huffington Post. […]» Read More
Syracuse Statement Cements School's Top Spot on '12 Worst Schools for Free Speech' List
January 28, 2011
Yesterday, FIRE placed Syracuse as number one on the list of the 12 Worst Schools for Free Speech that we published on The Huffington Post. Fittingly, on that very day Syracuse cemented its spot on the list by releasing a statement about its persecution of law student Len Audaer–a statement so deceptive and dishonest that we are frankly shocked that Syracuse released it. (For those just tuning in, FIRE has posted an extensive Q&A about the case.) You can read the entire text of Syracuse's statement on its own website, but it is so atrocious that the only way to thoroughly address it is to take […]» Read More
Statement of January 28, 2011, from Len Audaer
January 28, 2011
School Betrays Promises Made In Negotiations January 28, 2011 In an act of staggering naïvety, Faculty Prosecutor Professor Gregory Germain today asked if I was still willing to take the deal that the school is offering me. That comes despite their utter betrayal yesterday by releasing a substantially more incendiary version than the last one Prof. Germain himself had submitted to us! FIRE's truly awesome assessment of the university's statement can be found here. My response, to all parties, was as follows: What I had understood from our discussions was that a public apology and admission of complicity was to […]» Read More
Syracuse Prosecutor: 'There are a lot of people who have a sense of entitlement to free speech'
January 24, 2011
Last Tuesday, Syracuse University College of Law (SUCOL) faculty prosecutor Gregory Germain appeared before the SUCOL Law Student Bar Association to explain the latest developments in his absurd prosecution of a student for "harassment" based on the expression on a satirical law school blog called SUCOLitis. His comments reveal an unfortunately unsurprising lack of understanding of, and even disdain for, the principles of free speech on SUCOL's campus. The most revealing lines of all in the meeting minutes come from Professor Germain, who reportedly said: I think there are a lot of people who have a sense of entitlement to […]» Read More
Syracuse Law School Blasted by 'Daily Orange' for Prosecution of Innocent Student
January 24, 2011
Over the weekend, Syracuse University student newspaper The Daily Orange blasted Syracuse University College of Law (SUCOL) for prosecuting innocent expression posted on a satirical blog called SUCOLitis, which made fun of life in law school—like SUCOL's version of The Onion. For more than three months, law student Len Audaer has been under investigation with the threat of expulsion for "harassment" because of the expression on the blog, even though: he has never acknowledged writing any of the blog posts on SUCOLitis; he has never been told which expression on the blog he is being investigated for; he has never […]» Read More
Instead of Slaying a Beast, Syracuse Creates a Monster
January 10, 2011
Those who wish to censor are often shocked to discover that the harder they try to suppress speech, the more widely known it becomes. This phenomenon is certainly true for the investigation of Len Audaer, the alleged author of the satirical blog SUCOLitis at Syracuse University College of Law (SUCOL). Alex Piliouras of Syracuse Basement, another humor blog, explains how SUCOL's attempts to silence SUCOLitis have given it a much louder voice: For another thing, blogs aren't exactly pulling in millions of viewers. They're blogs. It's the equivalent of vomiting on a keyboard because you're bored. However, once there's the […]» Read More
At Syracuse University, Does 'Harassment' Mean Whatever Gregory Germain Thinks It Means?
December 30, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, I reported on an e-mail conversation that Gregory Germain, the self-styled "independent prosecutor" in FIRE's case at Syracuse University College of Law, had with me and with FIRE supporter David Ross. In the case, Germain is prosecuting law student Len Audaer because of satirical expression on an anonymous blog named SUCOLitis, which is like The Onion and satirizes life in law school. Professor Ross and Professor Germain continued their conversation—you can find the latest over at Popehat—but I wanted to point out this gem from Professor Germain: Mr. Ross seems to believe that all terms […]» Read More
FIRE's Kissel in 'New York Post' on Syracuse's War on Satire
December 21, 2010
Yesterday's New York Post featured an article by FIRE Vice President of Programs Adam Kissel about Syracuse University's ongoing and unjustifiable war on satire and parody. Syracuse's College of Law has been investigating student Len Audaer for more than two months over his alleged involvement in the anonymous SUCOLitis satire blog, which aimed to be like The Onion for the law school community. As Adam says in the article, instead of teaching the lessons of American freedom, "Syracuse is teaching the next generation of lawyers that the right not to be offended trumps the rights of free speech and due process."» Read More
Q&A on the Syracuse Free Speech Case
December 17, 2010
FIRE has learned that Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor and Syracuse University College of Law (SUCOL) Dean Hannah Arterian have been replying to the many messages they have received from supporters of free speech in the case of the wrongful investigation of law student Len Audaer (see FIRE's case page for details). Their replies essentially say that Syracuse is right and FIRE is wrong (they are long on complaint and short on evidence). Obviously, we disagree. FIRE does not get involved in a case unless we have clear and convincing documentation of a rights violation on campus. The bottom line is that […]» Read More
FIRE Supporters Making Voices Heard on Injustices at Syracuse
December 16, 2010
As FIRE supporter David Ross has illustrated, Syracuse University College of Law's (SUCOL's) chilling investigation of law student Len Audaer over the publication of an anonymous, satirical website has prompted strong reactions from supporters concerned about the state of free speech at Syracuse. Since we issued our press release, dozens (that we know of) have used our website to write letters to the university, calling for an end to the investigation. Many additional supporters have written to us to convey their shock and outrage. Thank you! Public interest in the case continues to grow, meanwhile, with publications like The Chronicle […]» Read More
Peter's Letter to the Editor on Syracuse Case in 'The Daily Orange'
December 16, 2010
FIRE's Peter Bonilla has written an excellent letter to the editor appearing in The Daily Orange about our ongoing case at Syracuse University College of Law (SUCOL). We have written extensively about the astonishing case of SUCOL student Len Audaer here on The Torch recently, so I don't need to do much in the way of introduction. In a nutshell, Audaer has now been under investigation for two months (and counting) for allegations of "harassment" due to the content of an anonymous, satirical blog, SUCOLitis. Though SUCOLitis explicitly states that it is a satirical fake news site, and though the […]» Read More
'Chronicle of Higher Education' and 'Las Vegas Review-Journal' on Syracuse Case
December 15, 2010
In the "Wired Campus" section of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Marc Parry writes about FIRE's case at Syracuse University College of Law: SUCOLitis aspires to be something like The Onion of law-school life. The Syracuse, N.Y., satirical news blog has attracted thousands of views with fake headlines about beer pong, third-year students serving burritos, and the election of the university's "sexiest Semite." It delights in attributing fake quotes to students and faculty, as well as to famous alumni like Vice President Joe Biden, who is quoted as calling SUCOLitis "even funnier than me." Syracuse University officials aren't laughing. The law school has threatened "harassment" charges […]» Read More
Syracuse Faculty Prosecutor Melting Down: If You Can't Stand the Heat …
December 15, 2010
One of FIRE's longtime allies, David Ross, keeps a list of people interested in FIRE issues and of administrators who have been involved in some way in a FIRE case. When he gets a press release from FIRE about a violation of someone's rights, he often copies this list when he writes the university to ask for an explanation. After he wrote Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor about our outrageous case at Syracuse University College of Law (SUCOL), he received a response from the faculty prosecutor, SUCOL Professor Gregory Germain. I replied to it, and that's when Germain started to […]» Read More
Rogue Syracuse Prosecutor Reveals Gag Order and His Contempt for Free Speech
December 15, 2010
Yesterday, in a message that we will reveal soon, Syracuse University College of Law (SUCOL) Professor Gregory Germain (self-described as "the 'Prosecutor'") revealed to a large group of e-mail recipients nationwide that he had filed a motion for a gag order on Len Audaer and his attorney Mark Blum in Audaer's free speech case. We reported the details of the case in a press release yesterday. In short, Audaer was told he was under investigation for "harassment" because of the content of an anonymous, satirical blog about life in law school, named SUCOLitis. The content of the blog, however, comes […]» Read More
'Normal Circumstances' at Syracuse?
December 15, 2010
As you may know by now, Syracuse University College of Law (SUCOL) is asking the law school's judicial system to issue a "protective order" (read: gag order) that would severely hamper Len Audaer's efforts to bring public attention to SUCOL's ongoing investigation of his protected expression. In documents filed yesterday, faculty "prosecutor" Gregory Germain sheds some additional light on his reasons for seeking the order, namely: The [SUCOL student conduct] Code did not envision a charged student seeking public attention for the proceedings. The Code was designed to protect the privacy rights of charged students, who in normal circumstances would not […]» Read More
Syracuse University Threatens 'Harassment' Charges over Satirical Blog, Seeks Gag Order on Alleged Author
December 14, 2010
Today's press release provides a sad update on FIRE's case at Syracuse University College of Law (SUCOL), which has threatened a student with "harassment" charges for the last two months because of the content of a satirical blog about life in law school. Two months later, the university has refused to tell him what expression in particular justified the charges or even who is charging him. Worse still, the faculty prosecutor, Professor Gregory Germain, is now demanding a gag order on law student Len Audaer, his attorney Mark Blum (SUCOL '91), and any media outlets that receive information about the […]» Read More
National Public Radio Affiliate Latest to Cover Syracuse's Investigation of Law Student
November 16, 2010
National Public Radio affiliate WRVO, in Oswego, NY, published a story Friday on FIRE's ongoing case at Syracuse University College of Law (SUCOL), where law student Len Audaer continues to face possible disciplinary charges for his alleged role with the satirical blog SUCOLitis. Torch readers will remember that Audaer is being investigated for harassment due to the content of the blog, which makes clear that it is a satirical publication that contains no actual news. SUCOL Professor Gregory Germain has been leading the investigation, a fact which would be unexceptional were it not for the numerous statements Germain has made […]» Read More
Syracuse University College of Law Still Investigating Alleged Author of Satirical Blog
November 10, 2010
Syracuse University College of Law (SUCOL) student Len Audaer is still being investigated for "harassment" by his school, which suspects that he authored anonymous posts for the explicitly satirical blog SUCOLitis. (For our previous posts on this issue, click here, here, here, and here.) On October 25, 2010, FIRE sent a letter to Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, urging her to drop the investigation of Audaer. We reminded her that Syracuse is legally and morally required to uphold the free speech promises that Syracuse makes to its students and that the expression on the blog does not come close to meeting the […]» Read More
Robert Takes On Syracuse University College of Law in 'Pajamas Media'
October 29, 2010
Today in Pajamas Media, Robert criticizes Syracuse University College of Law's (SUCOL's) investigation of the satirical blog SUCOLitis and one of its alleged authors. These lines about sum it up: Nobody forced Syracuse to build a giant building with the First Amendment emblazoned on the side. Having done so, however, one would think that the university would at least have the shame to try to live up to it. And: Unfortunately, Syracuse's recent assault on the free speech of its students has shown that this private university's voluntary commitment to the principles of the First Amendment may be nothing more […]» Read More
Media Interest Heightens in Syracuse's Investigation of Satirical Law Blog as FIRE Intervenes
October 27, 2010
Public interest continues to heighten over the Syracuse University College of Law (SUCOL) investigation of SUCOL student Len Audaer, an alleged author behind the anonymous satirical blog SUCOLitis. Audaer, as we reported here earlier, is currently being investigated for "harassment" on the basis of the blog's content—though he remains unaware of the identity of whomever has brought the complaint. SUCOLitis is now private and requires a password for access, but there is no indication from Syracuse that it will stop the investigation. FIRE has transitioned from concerned onlooker to active participant in this worrying case, as The Daily Orange reports […]» Read More
'Above the Law' on Syracuse Law School Parody Site
October 21, 2010
Popular legal blog Above the Law comments this afternoon on the controversy sparked by a satirical student blog at Syracuse University College of Law, a contretemps Peter discussed here on The Torch earlier today. Above the Law's analysis of the situation is a must read, and I can't help but share some of author Elie Mystal's observations here. For example, Mystal's initial reaction is one that I'm willing to bet will resonate with most FIRE supporters: "I'm telling you guys, this country is going to hell, one ridiculous overreaction at a time." And check out Mystal's reaction to Professor Gregory […]» Read More
Syracuse University Law Student Charged with Harassment for Satirical Website
October 21, 2010
At the Syracuse University College of Law (SUCOL), student Len Audaer is being investigated—by both the law school and Syracuse University's judicial affairs office—for allegedly being one of the writers of a satirical blog called SUCOLitis, which lampoons the people and affairs of the law school. According to student paper The Daily Orange in an article published yesterday: SUCOLitis, a WordPress blog, began publishing online at the beginning of October. A group of second- and third-year law students write on the website with the goal of entertaining those in SU's College of Law, according to the blog. But some officials and […]» Read More


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سلام المسيح اخي. شكراً لفتحكم موقع ويكي بالعربي لكننا سنحتاج مشرفين في هذا القسم قبل أن نعلن للناس عنه وأنا سانقل مواضيعي للقسم العربي. أخوك حبيب
Welcome back, Arbible. My wife and I have been writing on Zeitun and other apparitions of the Holy Virgin today. These make for interesting reading! I haven't given them much consideration previously. — FrJohn (talk)
- Thank you, Father. May the prayers and intercession of the Blessed Holy Virgin Mary be with us all. --Arbible
Recent quotation additions
A couple of notes regarding the recent additions you've made of quotations to various articles:
- If it's a quote from the person that is the article's subject, you don't need to attribute it. It's assumed from context. If it's a quote about that person, then of course attribution is appropriate.
- Including citations (the source of the quote) would be very useful, so that readers can look up the context of the quotation.
Thanks for your contributions! —Fr. Andrew talk contribs (THINK!) 09:40, January 5, 2006 (CST)
Thank you for the offer :) . My task was to categorise Uncategorized Quotes (which is mostly complete, but the article could do with alphabetisation); however, I would personally like to see a couple of distinctive quotes on articles of people who were influential through their writings (eg St John Chrysostom or Fr Seraphim Rose)... that being said, I probably don't have time to do that myself, but I'd enjoy it nonetheless. --— by Pιsτévο talk complaints at 08:05, May 13, 2006 (CDT)
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be hurtful my comment. I guess some of the Protestant Biblical "scholarly" evaluations in the article just seemed a bit too heterodox for me. So Clement's not in the Coptic Synaxarion? I couldn't find him online at any Chalcedonian sites, either. Which leads me to wonder: who exactly celebrates him as a saint? Any ideas? Gabriela 17:26, July 17, 2006 (CDT)
- Thanks for your reply and excellent edits to the article. (That's what a wiki is meant to be-- collaborative editing and article evolution (hopefully to the better) through Darwikinism.) Clement of Alexandria doesn't have his own biographical/saint/feast day entry in our Coptic Orthodox Synaxarium. The Coptic Synaxarium mentions him (not as a saint) under the following two entries:
- The Seventeenth Day of the Blessed Month of Baramoudah - The Martyrdom of St. James the Apostle Brother of St. John the Apostle:
- "Clement of Alexandria, from the fathers of the second century, said: "The soldier that seized the Saint, when he saw his courage, he realized that there must be a better life and asked the Saint for his forgiveness. Then the soldier confessed Christianity and received the crown of martyrdom (Acts 12:1,2) along with the Apostle in the year 44 A.D."
- The Fifteenth Day Of The Blessed Month Of Baounah - The Turning Over of the Relics of the Great St. Mark the Apostle by the hand of Pope Paul the Sixth, Pope of Rome:
- "Pope of Rome, replied in an official speech in French, that he read while sitting on the throne. In it he exalted the history of the Alexandrian church, and its long struggle in the field of dogma. He also praised its heros, and its learned people such as Athanasius the apostolic, Kyrillos (Cyril) the Pillar of Faith, Pantaenus and Clement."
- Clement of Alexandria is not on the present Roman Catholic calendar either (but used to be). This Anglican site says that he is on the Eastern (Orthodox) calendar (?) and on many modern revisions of the Anglican calendar.
- God Bless+
Dear Arbible,
You've been around OrthodoxWiki for a long time now, and I'm grateful for your work and commitment to this site. I'd like you to become our official "Oriental Orthodox Sysop," helping us to oversee (and mediate if necessary) articles related to the non-Chalcedonian churches and suggesting ways we could build more in this direction. I'm not sure what this would mean, but maybe you could help us figure it out!
I don't expect any more of a time commitment that you've already demonstrated. Along with the Sysop role, you'd be included on the sysop email list, and have some additional powers for managin articles.
Let me know, either here or on my talk page, or directly by email if you're willing to take on this job. Thanks! — FrJohn (talk)
- Dear Father,
- Thanks very much. This would be a great blessing to me. I would be very happy and also privileged to be able to learn more from you all and help as much as I can.
- Yours in Christ, --Arbible 16:53, August 10, 2006 (CDT)
- Wonderful! In progress... Thanks, Fr. John
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Arbible, have you obtained permission to use this content? Here's the goarch copyright notice. —magda (talk) 21:23, August 18, 2006 (CDT)
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Hello, when you welcome someone, use subst: for the {{welcome}} template. I mean, instead of placing {{welcome}} in the user talk page, place {{subst:welcome}}. This will make it more personal, and the new user, when hit "Edit this page" to reply to the message, will see a text, not an ugly template. Regards, Gregg 15:53, August 26, 2006 (CDT)
- Thanks very much for the excellent tip. Will do. Yours in Christ, --Arbible 01:04, August 27, 2006 (CDT)
Thanks for the booklets, Arbible! I got home on Friday, and they were waiting for me in the mail. I look forward to reading them. — FrJohn (talk)
- Glad they reached you. Thank you very much, Father. Yours in Christ, --Arbible 18:37, September 5, 2006 (CDT)
New Additions
Thanks for the quick reply. The article is my article and contribution to en.wikipedia.org. But I like your project and I think there should be an Orthodox wiki as well. I intend to add more monasteries from Romania. But that depends on the time I have. I also corrected the problem with the pictures and I have made them free for non-comercial use.
How would you say OrthodoxWiki in Arabic? Thanks! — FrJohn (talk)
- This would be:
- ارثوذكس ويكي
- (pronounced (transliterated in English): Orthozox wiki)
- Yours, --Arbible 08:02, November 2, 2006 (PST)
- Thanks - changed the sitename setting on the Arabic version. — FrJohn (talk)
- P.S. I've updated your sysop rights over there. Let me know if anything needs to be tweaked - I know, e.g. some of the special pages aren't translated. I guess that's not a super-high priority though. Maybe better just to get something on the main page, and transfer over the legal stuff. Feel free to take charge over there as much as you have time for. Thanks! — FrJohn (talk)
- Thank you very much, Father. I will do my best. Yours in Christ, --Arbible 10:07, November 2, 2006 (PST)
Coptic articles
Hi I am interested in articles about theCoptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and I have been asked by Fr. Andrew talk contribs on 15:45, March 29, 2007 (PDT) to organise with you as you are one of the administrators
I have started and edited a lot of the atricles regarding this chuch on english and arabic wikipedia and I am hoping I will be able to transfer a lot of these atricles if not all to othodoxwiki if possible Looking forward to hear from you--Ghaly 16:06, March 29, 2007 (PDT)
would you agree with me that both sides call themselves orthodox the differentiation is by saying Oriental or Eastern.--Ghaly 06:49, April 13, 2007 (PDT)
Thank you!
I had to let you know that I am glad that you're here to help maintain articles regarding things Coptic. You do a good job of keeping things balanced and within the parameters of OrthodoxWiki's self-identity. —Fr. Andrew talk contribs 06:32, April 13, 2007 (PDT)
His Holiness Pope Shenouda III and what you claim against him...
My Dear Brother,
How are you? I hope you are doing well.
I am very upset because what is written about His Holiness is absolutely 100% false and you won't allow me to correct it. I know for a fact that everything written is not true. How can you allow such things to be written? I don't understand where you get such ideas. His Holiness is a strong defender of Orthodoxy and he does not believe in any of what you have kept here on this page. Please show me what are your sources and I will prove to you this is false information. His Holiness is coming to visit in 1 month and I plan on presenting him with a copy of what is written so he can clarify it and if he has time, I will ask him to discuss it with us and I will ask to record the conversation.
I really hope you understand why I am upset about this situation. I hope to hear from you soon. Please keep me in your prayers.
- Above comments by User:Orthodoxy4everr
- There are even more points, including Pope Shenouda's 'denial that the Holy Spirit can dwell in the faithful', and Pope Shenouda's famous 'three bodies of Christ' theory adapted from Protestant writings (in their interpretation of what we receive in the Eucharist). All these issues are fully documented and referenced from Pope Shenouda's published writings/books and audio/video lectures. I invite you to read more about the Orthodox doctrine of theosis, the Barlaamite Controversy (14th century), as well as Pope Shenouda's writings against Pope Kyrillos VI in El-Keraza magazine during the sixties of the past century. --Arbible 00:59, April 27, 2007 (PDT)
First I want to warn you not to believe everything you hear. I would like to know what your sources are and if you claim that all of what you are saying is included in the writings of His Holiness, then I want you to send me the text of what you are speaking about. It is very easy for someone just to claim they heard this from someone they think is a credible source, but to actually check to see whether all of what they told you is true, is a very hard task. If you are able to find all of the sources, then you could justify your claims. Until then, these are 100% unjustified and I'm telling you they are not true. If you are claiming that His Holiness Pope Shenouda III wrote against His Holiness Pope Kyrillos VI in the Keraza magazine, then I would like to know exactly which issue number it is and from what year and I will find it or if you have it then please scan and send me the article where you claim he speaks against him. I am unable to believe what you are saying is true. I'm sure you are very aware there is also a controversy about the concept of Theosis these days. There are many who think that either they will become God or will become one with God exactly as our Lord Jesus Christ but this is not true and this is the only part of the concept of Theosis that His Holiness disagrees with and I'm sure the Eastern Orthodox Church disagrees with those statements as well.
Here is the Coptic Orthodox understanding of Theosis:
"Theosis or Deification means "union with God" taken from the Greek Theos - God, and the word Enosis - union. Our Lord Jesus Christ asked God the Father "They also may be one in us" (Jn 17:21). He also gave us the command of Theosis "Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in Heaven is perfect" (Mt 5:48), our goal in life is to accomplish perfect union with God through the grace of the Holy Spirit. Man was created in the image and likeness of God, and then sin created a gap between God and mankind, causing damage to our souls. All Christians through baptism receive the seed of Theosis, which is not only to the forgiveness of sins, reconciliation and justification, but also a restoration of God's image. The sinful inclination of our human nature should not govern our behavior anymore; instead we should strive to live a holy life looking towards Jesus Christ the author of our faith, and growing in His knowledge and sonship. The restoration and sanctification of Theosis brings us back into relationship with the Creator. St. Athanasius' presentation of Theosis was summarized as "the reintegration of the divine image of man's creation through the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit conforming the redeemed into the likeness of the Lord Jesus Christ, and also of the believer's transition from mortality to immortality so that he is enabled to participate in the eternal bliss and glory of the kingdom of God."
Our full union with God is a union with the "energies" of God. These energies, while an extension of God, are not to be confused with the "essence" or "substance" of God, which is unknown by humans and is shared only by the Holy Trinity. Our union with God will not make us gods but will make us partners in the Divine nature in works not in essence. We will not acquire the unique characteristics of God such as being the Creator, the Omnipotent, the Omnipresent, but it will make us partners with Him in building the Kingdom by our own salvation and by winning the souls of others to the Lord Jesus Christ."
In the page about His Holiness Pope Shenouda III it says, "Books like Achieving Your Potential in Christ: Theosis - Plain Talks on a Major Doctrine of Orthodoxy by the Very Rev. Fr. Anthony M. Coniaris (Edited by D. A. Riewe) would thus be against Pope Shenouda's teachings." - How can you ever make such a statement without first knowing and understand what His Holiness has actually said about the concept of Theosis?
In the beginning of the section it says, "Pope Shenouda III is said to be totally denying the Orthodox concept and doctrine of theosis (even the word/term)". This is a statement that cannot be backed in any way and is just someone stating what they THINK they heard about His Holiness and it doesn't deserve to be on a page about him as though it was factual information!
In that section it also says "Pope Shenouda's longstanding theological disputes with Habib Bebawi, PhD (Cambridge), a renowned Coptic theologian specialising in patristic studies and the late Father Matta El-Meskeen are well known, and many observers have attributed them to personal and ecclesiastico-political motives, rather than to any genuine doctrinal flaws or deviations from Orthodoxy in the writings of Bebawi and Matta." - Dr. Bebawi has been excommunicated from the Coptic Orthodox Church and he is now a member of the Anglican Church and therefore, anything he says or believes does not have anything to do with the Coptic Orthodox Church. Dr. Bebawi also joined the Russian Orthodox Church first before leaving them to join the Anglican Church because they also did not agree with ANY of this teachings, meaning he is clearly NOT Orthodox! If you were to realize that all those against His Holiness are not Orthodox maybe you'd take back your statements. Father Matta had many thoughts that are not Orthodox and His Holiness wrote many books to answer all of the wrong teachings of Father Matta and therefore no one can ever claim that it is just personal problems! It is all VERY well documented in the writings of His Holiness and those of Father Matta. I'm trying to show you here that your statements have no back bone and they are all incorrect and I would like to have them removed immediately!
I hope to hear back from you soon with the sources and proof for what it is you are claiming and I'd also like to know how you are able to protect the document and prevent others from correcting the information because you are not justified in your claims and therefore, you cannot forbid anyone else from making a correction to what you are saying. I hope you understand me because this is a serious matter that I would like resoloved.
His Eminence Metropolitan Bishoy...
My Dear Brother
I realized that you also protected his page when all you are doing is hurting him, not protecting him. Everything he said was taken out of context. Please realize that it is the enemies of the Church who do such things in order to create problems. Please allow me to edit this page as well. I can't stand to see this lies written about His Holiness and Metropolitan Bishoy. They are 2 of the greatest Theologians of our time and great defenders of Orthodoxy and they are being persected a lot as Saint Athanasius the Great was.
I hope once again that you understand me. Please keep me in your prayers.
- Above comments by User:Orthodoxy4everr
- I am afraid what you are saying is not true! Please listen to http://zeitun-eg.org/members_contrib/anbabishoy06622.mp3
- Yours in Christ, --Arbible 00:37, April 27, 2007 (PDT)


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Oral-History:Rudy Joenk
About Rudy Joenk
The interview of Rudy Joenk was conducted on behalf of the IEEE Professional Communication Society in 2007.
Rudy Joenk was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He majored in physics at Washington University in St. Louis and graduated with a BA in 1953. After his army service, Joenk entered the University of Washington in Seattle and got master's degree in physics. He received his PhD in 1962 from the University of Pittsburgh and started in the same year working at the IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. Six years later, he became an Associate Editor for the IBM Journal of Research and Development and in 1971 an Editor.
While working for IBM, Joenk also accepted the editorship for the Professional Communication Society of the IEEE (PCS) in around 1977. He played an important role in establishing the PCS journal, Transactions of the IEEE Professional Communication Society and organized newsletters and conferences for engineers to help improve their technical communication. In 1978, he left New York and got a job at the IBM Patent Department in Boulder. Soon, he started a new position, putting together the Information Development Department for IBM. The Department published manuals for IBM products, and Joenk focused on good writing and editing for the manuals. He retired in 1993 after being with IBM for 31 years.
In this interview, Rudy Joenk shares his thoughts on the works of the PCS over the past thirty years. He argues that with the development of the Internet and the World-Wide Web, international communication has become important and explains that the Internet use has been covered by PCS conferences and the PCS journal, Transactions. Since his main interest lies in communication, Joenk pays attention to the usability of the Internet contents and PowerPoint, which has become available to many engineers. Although he sympathizes with the critics of PowerPoint and Microsoft, he admits that they are useful communication tools. Joenk also mentions the effects of the PCS on academia and how difficult it was for the PCS to earn recognition within the IEEE. He points out greater influence of the PCS outside the IEEE and expresses optimism for its future. Rudy Joenk concludes the interview, briefly mentioning that the Internet and email were the most important boost in communication over the past thirty years.
About the Interview
RUDY JOENK: An Interview Conducted by Michael Geselowitz, IEEE History Center, 25 March 2007
Interview #469 for the IEEE History Center, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
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Interview: Rudy Joenk
Interviewer: Michael Geselowitz
Date: 25 March 2007
Place: Rudy Joenk's home in Boulder, Colorado
Education and military service
I'm with Rudy Joenk of the IEEE Professional Communication Society and conducting an oral history interview on behalf of the Society. Rudy, thank you very much for having me in your home and agreeing to do the interview. Would you tell us a little bit about your early years and how you got interested in technical matters?
Early in my life?
Yes, early in your life – high school and how you decided what to do in college and that sort of thing.
I remember very little about high school except that I think it was generally fairly easy for me.
Where did you live in your early years?
I was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived there twenty-one years. After high school I went on to Washington University in St. Louis. For reasons unknown I thought I would major in chemistry, but after a first semester of that I decided I didn't like it and switched to physics. I managed to come out of Washington University with a bachelor's degree in liberal arts, with a major in physics.
What year was this?
That was '53. The Korean conflict was finishing up at that time, so I had been in the Army ROTC in order to obtain deferments and finish college. Upon graduating I went off to the Army in Fort Bliss, Texas as a second lieutenant. They trained me in antiaircraft artillery. At first that was a great big 120-mm gun. Then they sent me up to Washington state as part of the antiaircraft defense of Seattle. Before that time I had not realized that there was such a thing as defending our coastal cities. We had a small encampment just south of Seattle and set up a 120-mm antiaircraft artillery gun. We did that for a while and eventually they converted to the Nike missile. Therefore we did some training down at Fort Lewis in Tacoma, Washington, traveling back and forth to the south end of Seattle. When the Army offered me an early release after 21 months I took it and started at the University of Washington in Seattle. I got a master's degree in physics there.
Did your physics background help at all in your missile defense?
No, I don't think so. It didn't hurt, that's for sure. It was a hard subject. It was hard in the way of hardware, but no real application. Once I got my master's degree I started looking around for what to do next.
What was the subject of your master's thesis?
Chronic cavitation in water—that is, the bubbles that gather at the nodes of standing waves. I don't know whether that has had any practical application. I never applied it. While I was at the University I also worked in a cosmic ray laboratory. Afterwards when I was looking for a job the best one that turned up was the Westinghouse Atomic Energy Plant in Pittsburgh, because they offered me a Fellowship whereby I could go to school the equivalent of one day a week and work four days. Initially I did theoretical calculations on a submarine nuclear reactor that was called the S5W.
Did you have anything to do with the so-called atom-smasher at that plant, which is today an IEEE Milestone?
Ph.D. studies, employment at IBM, and early professional affiliations
No, my work was all on the theory on how reactors worked. Meanwhile in school I specialized in magnetism. I finished in '62 with a Ph.D. in physics.
Which school was that?
The University of Pittsburgh. My advisor there was good friends with a fellow at the IBM Research Center in Yorktown Heights, and between the two of them they got me a job there. Thanksgiving of 1962 I went to the IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. I applied my degree there working in the field of magnetism – magnetic compounds and so on.
Was magnetic memory the application on which you were looking?
Yes. At that time, being a research center, we were more poking around. Back in those days there were not a whole lot of ties between research and development. Ties became stronger over the years, but back in the early days of the Watson Research Center in New York City and even after its move to Yorktown Heights in 1961, there were not a lot of ties. Largely we were looking at new compounds that could be used for computer memory. I analyzed some of those theoretically and made some calculations and gave a few talks and wrote a few papers and so forth.
Did you have a professional affiliation in those days with an association like the IRE or anything like that?
Back in those days there was the American Physical Society (APS) and another I can't remember.
The APS was and is the main association for physicists.
Yes, that was a main one. The other organization I joined was the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The AAAS, yes. The one that publishes Science magazine.
The American Physical Society publishes Physics Today I think.
Yes, and they also publish The Physical Review. Physical Review was of most interest to me.
How long were you at IBM?
I retired in '93 after being with IBM for 31 years.
IBM Journal of Research and Development
How long were you in the Yorktown facility?
I stayed at Yorktown for six years, and during that time I decided that I was not going to be a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, so I started looking for some other things to do. While at Yorktown I had written a section of an encyclopedia on physics about ferromagnetism, and I had written my own papers and had edited a book for another fellow there. I was interested in technical information and turned out to be a pretty good editor. Therefore I went over to work for the IBM Journal of Research and Development, which was located in White Plains in another Westchester County community. I started there in '68 as an Associate Editor and in '71 became Editor. Generally I found that while I could not do my own personal research in all the various fields, I had a pretty good sense of what was right and what was wrong when someone wrote a paper. I could edit and find errors in computer science, programming, chemistry or physics or anything and get the author to straighten it out.
Was that an IBM-wide journal for all of their departments?
It was not only IBM-wide but it was available outside of IBM as well.
Was it their way to promote their research to the outside world?
For example, university libraries subscribed?
Right. In the past decade, or maybe it's been the past two decades, I think it has become available on newsstands. It has a sister journal called The IBM System Journal. Now that one is definitely available on newsstands. It can be found at Barnes and Noble or Borders or stores like that. It has always been available outside IBM. We were really writing it to convince academia and other industry of the value and capabilities of our scientists and engineers.
How long did you stay with that?
I stayed there until '78. I made two trips to Europe and visited all the IBM scientific facilities, ten or so places. They had small scientific centers and big research labs over there. The job was to try to get the IBM scientists and engineers to publish. We had a little bit of a problem in that even our own people thought it was an internal IBM journal. They often preferred to publish in things like the Physical Review. Part of the job was convincing them that our journal was worthwhile.
Was there a language issue when you went to these European centers? Did they want to publish in French while your journal was only in English?
No, we had no trouble. They published mostly in English. To get my Ph.D. I had to pass tests in French and German, but I never used it because everything was published in English. Language was not a problem. They were all English-speaking at these laboratories. Of course they could speak their native languages, but English seemed to be the primary language of science and engineering.
Were you successful in boosting submissions?
Yes. I became Editor and that was part of it. I was quite successful. I guess I doubled the circulation outside the company.
Professional communication and the IEEE
Was it during this period that you came to realize that professional communication was sort of an art? Up until then, people like yourself were accidentally discovered by their companies to be good, and backed into editorial jobs. Maybe you thought you ought to get together with other people and discuss best practices and publish guides and that sort of thing. When did that enter your consciousness?
I wish I could say that it did, but my involvement with professional communication came about in an entirely different way. Back about the end of '76 or early '77 the Professional Communication Society of the IEEE (PCS) came looking for me. I had been working at IBM with a fellow named Herb Michaelson, who was one of the editors of the IBM journal. He belonged to PCS, and they were having trouble at that time with their main technical journal Transactions of the IEEE Professional Communication Society at the time. Therefore he and the then-current president, Emily Schlesinger, asked me to take over the Transactions. It was like a sudden exposure to the idea of professional communication as a field, rather than something gradual.
That brings a lot of questions to my mind. Did you know about the IEEE PCS and its Transactions because you had colleagues who were involved in it although you were not involved in any way yourself prior to that?
Not prior to that, no.
Did you subscribe to Transactions or anything like that?
When you heard about it, did something click? Did you say to yourself that this is a good idea – that there ought to be such a Transactions where people could discuss best practices and so forth.
Of course, so, yes, I became very interested in it. One of IBM's vice presidents, Manny (Emmanuel R.) Piori, was very involved with IEEE, and encouraged employees to get involved. IBM sponsors an IEEE award in his name in the field of information processing in relation to computer science.
IBM has always had a strong involvement with IEEE. Did you know Emerson Pugh at IBM?
He is on the IEEE History Committee, and I have worked closely with him over my 10 years at IEEE.
He was at the Research Center.
I don't think he will know me.
I'll ask him. I talk to him frequently. He has done a lot of research and writing on the history of IBM.
I knew Lew Terman.
He is now the president-elect of IEEE.
Yes. For next year, I guess—then he'll be President.
Editorship of the Professional Communication Society of the IEEE (PCS) Transactions
So, there is a long connection between IBM and IEEE. Was the editorship of the PCS Transactions a full-time position? How did that work? You were editing a journal professionally and they wanted you to edit this association's journal. How did that work in terms of your time?
The IEEE journal was strictly volunteer work I did on off hours – except that IBM was quite generous about giving me flexibility with my time. I also got some support for the mailings and other communications from IBM, but, like everybody else editing for IEEE, it was a volunteer job. Before that I had been Mayor of Ossining, New York, a small Westchester community, for about four years, and IBM was very flexible with that as well. I also attended APS meetings and so forth. In general I had no trouble.
For listeners who don't know, I'll point out that Ossining is famous for being the site of the Sing-Sing Prison.
Yes, and it is still there. It was in the old James Cagney movies.
That's where the expression from which "up the river" comes – up the river from New York City to Ossining. Being a politician, like being a writer and editor, also involves a lot of communication skills.
So, they the PCS drew you into editing their Transactions and that got you involved in the Society. I would think the spotlight was really on you compared to, say, if you were editing Physical Review or something like that, because it was the communication organ of an association about communicating. What it was like to edit that journal?
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Even to this day there are many people in the IEEE who have never heard of the Professional Communication Society, and back in the beginning of '77 it was much worse. That was thirty years ago. The word communication in our title often comes out with an "s" on the end, even by the people doing the records work—they would confuse us with the IEEE Communications Society, also known as ComSoc. It was a difficult start. The reason they had called on me was because the Transactions was supposed to be quarterly, like most Transactions, but that last year of '76 it had gotten down to two issues and a total of only forty-six pages. They were in dire straits at the time. The PCS Administrative Committee (AdCom) gave me permission to do some reprinting, so I went to a lot of other journals in the communication field and got permission to reprint things. We soon got it back up to a normal size and a regular type of publication. That went on for several years, and finally someone in the IEEE began to notice us and decided that we were not exactly an archival-quality journal – at least not 100% archival. We began to work our way back to the archival type. Because we had developed a good reputation by that time we began to get more and more external submissions. By the time I left the Transactions in '84 it had been almost 100% archival-type external submissions.We had given up the reprinting. I got quite a variety of the kinds of things that I thought – and I still think – engineers really need: the how-to-write sort of stuff. I found that even these authors in communication-oriented journals very seldom used any form of graphics or visual aids to illustrate points in their articles, so I began collecting cartoons. I would use the cartoons to illustrate points made in the articles. I found that many artists were extremely sensitive to the nuances of the language and people's shortcomings in that area. You may have noticed that on bathroom door here in my apartment I have a sign, "The Department of Redundancy Department." That actually came from a "Ziggy" cartoon more than a quarter of a century ago, but it is only in the past few years that this concept has come into public awareness. "B.C." was another good cartoon for these sort of language jokes, and another was "Herman" by Jim Unger. Single panels like "Ziggy" were best for me, but comic strips like "Ziggy" and "B.C." were also extremely sensible in illustrating how people mangled the language and didn't know how to use it. I had plenty of material for that. In the late '70s to early '80s I gave several talks at PCS conferences that were totally based on these cartoons. I had a lot of these cartoons. I turned them into slides and gave a running commentary on the language problems and illustrated them with these cartoons.
It's interesting because I would say the improper use of language is a problem in our society as a whole. Some would say it's gotten even worse since '84. I guess there is a kind of contradiction. On the one hand engineers are stereotyped as only being strong in mathematical language and not being as strong in language, writing and communication as their liberal arts colleagues. At same time, it is crucial in engineering to communicate precisely. If you misinterpret a poem no one gets hurt, but for instance in the Mars probe where different units of the lab are using different measuring systems you have a disaster on your hands. How do you feel about engineers as communicators in general versus society as a whole?
I think our awareness of the problems in technical communication has increased greatly over the years. Back in '77 no one was terribly aware of it or concerned with it. I think there has been much more emphasis on it within corporations and universities that have started technical communication departments. It used to be that any instruction, even if it might have been oriented toward engineers, came out of the English department. This did not work out very well, so now, when universities take on a technical communication job, they very often put it in the engineering department. An awful lot of big universities have technical communication departments now, and I think in general engineers are doing better.
Do you think the PCS Transactions has helped with that?
I think that the PCS newsletters and conferences do more directly for the engineer. The necessity of being an archival journal points the Transactions in all IEEE Societies towards a more academic focus. Every time anybody gets reviewed – for PCS Transactions as well as for those of the more directly technical societies – one of the complaints is always that they don't have enough practical material. I think we do a little bit better with our newsletter and conferences than the Transactions are actually allowed to do. They have to attract academics and will be peer reviewed, so there is a lot more of the esoteric than the practical in any society's Transactions.
Were you involved in the newsletter as well?
During the last two years I edited the Transactions, '83 and '84, I also edited the newsletter. I again took on the newsletter in '98 and carried it through '04. Then we decided to turn it into an electronic publication. I figured that was the most useful time to bow out. I really wasn't that good with the web and I'd done an awful lot of editing all of my life. I had retired in '93 but stayed active in the Society. I was on the AdCom, chaired the Editorial Advisory Committee, things like that. I was happy to turn over to a new editor but I was not so happy to see it go electronic, because I find it harder to read copy on a monitor than on paper. However we have had a very good editor and she has put it in a format that I find to be quite adaptable through the tube. It's not bad at all.
I have faced the same problem. When I get electronic newsletters I skim them on the tube and if there is something in which I am really interested I print it out to read it. Do you think that is something inherent about the human eye or is it the way we were raised and the next generation will be perfectly able to read and edit quite comfortably right off the screen?
I think for us it had to do with that to which we are accustomed. Reading off monitors is not inherently more difficult, but it is very different. We are so familiar with paper. My grandchildren have no trouble whatsoever reading on the tube. I'm not going to say they will be less interested in reading books because they are very interested in books. Nowadays I get a special pair of glasses that are the right distance and focus for reading on the tube. I am not at all fond of the newsletters that take up the full width of the screen, but I do read some newsletters on there. I read our newsletter and I read a genealogy newsletter on the tube, but some I have to print out or skim and ignore.
Transition to IBM Patent Department in Boulder, Colorado
Let's go back to when you finally left New York. When was that?
I left New York in '78. That was the end of my time with the IBM Journal of Research and Development. I came out here to Boulder. There is an old Army story about people who came out of various schools in the Army. They were all asked, "Where would you like to go?" The result was that Hawaii sank into the ocean, while Alaska was uninhabited. Well, Boulder was IBM's Hawaii. It was very popular. I found a job out here in Boulder. I came out here to work in the Patent Department because of my technical editing and interpretation abilities. I was going to help the scientists write their patent disclosures. That worked out well for a while. However, the real reason that there even was such a position for me out here was because all the IBM patent attorneys were so busy with the court cases involving the patent infringement disagreement with Xerox over copying technology. Then all of a sudden IBM and Xerox settled and cross-licensed their patents. That made my job sort of go away.
Were you given any special training in patents when they brought you out here?
You applied your general knowledge of communication. And of course illustrations are important to patents and you had that background as well.
Yes. That's my background. However, if you turn it around, you can say that I used what I learned in patents in my professional communication work because I put together a special issue of the PCS Transactions on patents and patenting for engineers. A few years after the first issue, we had another issue updating the field. Then much later, in '95, we put out a book. It is credited to one of our members, but two issues of the Transactions ultimately led to the book in '95. The Transactions issues were in '82 and '84 or something like that. The book covered exactly the same sorts of things but was a decade newer.
IBM Information Development Department; technical writing and product manuals
You were out here doing patents and IBM and Xerox decided it was better to make nice than to fight. What happened next?
I had another stroke of luck when a new position materialized, or maybe it was created it for me. IBM decided that they needed a group to write the manuals that go with their products. They had only had one or two people in each division writing the user manuals and the maintenance manuals and that sort of thing. They decided to create a separate department of publications for IBM products. We called it the "Information Development Department." I started putting that group together and we wrote the user's manuals, maintenance manuals and programming guides and all that sort of thing. We got the staff up to thirty people or so – technical writers, editors, graphic artists and so forth.
Are they all here in Boulder?
What are some of the products for which you wrote the manuals?
The primary one at that time was the 6670. It was typewriter that recorded on magnetic cards the size of the old paper punch cards. Boulder in general was a printing hub, and they made large page type printers and were beginning to make some of the smaller consumer-type printers. That eventually got spun off as Lexmark, which is still here in Boulder.
I have a Lexmark multi-function machine at home.
It probably has good documentation. You undoubtedly have bought a Japanese or Chinese clock or radio at one time or another, and found that their user's manuals are not easy to understand.
They are incomprehensible.
We wanted IBM to avoid that, or to get away from it if we were guilty of it. Therefore we put a lot of emphasis into good writing and editing as well as graphics that illustrated what they were supposed to illustrate.
My sense with the Asian consumer products particularly is that they clearly do not feel it is important or have no interest. For example, the instructions for clock radios made in China have been translated by people who clearly do not have a good grasp of English. They did not even bother to have a native speaker do a spot check. I find that incredible. I can't believe that, in these times of a global economy, that it is difficult find someone to do that inexpensively. I guess the assumption is that the consumer will work it out somehow. It would be much worse if you bought a mainframe. You would not want to invest in a mainframe and then find out its instructions were gobbledy-gook.
I think that back at that time technical writers were only beginning to be independent and put themselves up as consultants and work outside of major firms like IBM. Within IBM there was a tradition. Boulder was definitely not the first by any means. Poughkeepsie and some of the European sites publication staffs. After I formed the Boulder group, however, we began to operate as a community. We had our own set of conferences and get-togethers and things like that and worked with each other in translating and so forth for the IBM community.
Professional Communication Society conferences
You mentioned what you did with the newsletter, but you also mentioned that you thought the conferences were useful for the technical communicators. What are some of the kinds of things that PCS has done including conferences that you think were useful for the profession?
I think basically we have a little more engineering-oriented content in the conferences and therefore the conference proceedings, as opposed to the Transactions or even the newsletter. At a conference you get a concentration of useful papers. For instance, the conference is going to Seattle this year and I think that they have somewhere between ninety and a hundred presentations. Many of those are much more practically oriented than the content the Transactions. An issue of PCS Transactions may only have three to ten papers in it and comes out quarterly, so when we get a hundred in the proceedings of a conference it is a considerable bump up. We move the conference around the country and endeavor to utilize the IEEE sections wherever we are holding a conference. We have been in Canada a couple of times and in England once. One year we held what was in effect a second conference in Russia, and we have had some symposia in Russia and elsewhere as well.
What would you say about the level of the presentations?
The IEEE publication emphasis is on archival stuff and that is not the same, in my view, as what engineers really need. The newsletter and the conferences are helpful, and teach engineers how to write. In our newsletter we occasionally have a column called "Professor Grammar" which will address particular language issue as "that" vs. "which" or dangling participles. In only a few hundred words we will give a short but useful tutorial on one of these issues. One of our fellows over in France, an author, does something similar that is a little bit more in depth on different aspects of the French language.
Have you been involved in organizing or chairing any of the conferences over the years?
No. I have gone to a good deal of them but not chaired anything.
Have you presented at them?
Yes, any times. I did many of those cartoon-type presentations. I finally gave that up when the attorneys decided that that use of a cartoon did not really fit into the fair-use law. It had been okay for many years, but then some newer version copyright law came out and the copyright attorneys began to get more and more cautious until they finally decided it really was not something I could do.
I wonder if that was that because the proceedings of a conference were published. In academia we use things like that in our teaching all the time. It is not disseminated in any other way than showing it in the classroom.
I would use fifty to a hundred cartoons in a talk, but I did not infringe copyright in the sense of reprinting them. As far as my stuff was concerned we used abstracts, so I was not violating that part of the copyright law.
Changes in the professional communication field
You have been involved in professional communication really your whole career, which goes back over forty years. You were also with the IEEE Professional Communication Society for thirty years and stayed active until quite recently. You actually walked away at one earlier point, but then they brought you back to do the newsletter again. You and I talked a few moments ago about the way the Internet and the World-Wide Web are changing things. I was wondering if you wanted to comment on the changes in the scope of interests of the PCS over the past thirty years. Pretty much when you started you were talking about writing, and now there is probably more than just writing involved, right? There is web design for instance.
Yes. You might say that the PCS is interested anything in which academia is interested, such as website design as you mentioned. Yes, there is a lot of that. There is a lot more interest these days in the international aspects of communication; the cross-cultural aspects of writing and saying things in such a way that they can be translated unambiguously. There has been a lot of progress in the way that user manuals are created. We have word processing and online communications. A lot of technical information can be put into a computer and one can write about various aspects, and if a good job has been done of that one can pick certain pieces and come out with a user's guide, maintenance manual or a programming manual or whatever because all the necessary information has been put in there and has been coded properly. This approach is called "single source."
So there is one database for all the technical information?
And then you pull what you need?
However you still need a person who will put that into prose that is understandable.
The database includes the prose. Then the pieces of the prose can be picked out. There is another movement called "minimalism" that tends to try to keep that prose to the absolute minimum necessary for clarity.
If it is going to be translated internationally it is probably better that it be minimal.
Exactly. It keeps the bulk of the material down as well as making it more translatable. Another recent development is more active collaboration in writing through writing teams. Those writers could be around the world. It is not necessary to have all the writers in the same place. Sometimes a company will make one aspect of a product in one country and another aspect in a second country and put it together in a third country. There could be writing teams in all those countries and online on the Internet and they can collaborate to turn out documents. The Internet has brought on its own set of problems with regard to copyright, ethics, privacy and so forth. Those all have to be considered by the writers.
Does the PCS consider all of those active issues in its conferences and newsletters?
Yes. These issues have definitely been covered at the conferences and in the Transactions. This kind of activity has increased corporate awareness. Corporations are now much more interested in having their people trained in the necessary writing, editing and so forth. The corporations are more interested now in understanding the need for this communication and the fact that their engineers and managers spend a lot of time communicating. That awareness within the companies has come a long distance in the past thirty years. Now that does not necessarily mean that the companies are going to spend a lot of money on it, but they are much more aware of it and are doing things that point in the right direction. The Transactions authors have done all sorts of analyses on whether it is better to present something in one direction in a sort of prose or flowing type or to present it in a bulleted list or that sort of thing. They have done lots of studies on what is good in that line. There are a lot of ongoing classes nowadays which our universities call distance learning. It allows the engineers to stay in their own locations and some professor will give a class online.
IEEE's Educational Activities department is now getting into that. They have something called "Expert Now," which has sort of glorified animated PowerPoint presentations with voiceovers online that can credit people with educational units and so forth.
Ron Blicq, whom I know you are going to see in Winnipeg, has been interested in that for quite some time and has a couple of his own products along that line.
The other main problems with the Internet are hacking and spam. Those things have to be treated. There are also issues with multilingual and multicultural texts– I think I mentioned that already – and the concept of usability. Can people actually use what is written? Well, sometimes, like the example of the clock radio manual I mentioned earlier, we still cannot really use it, but at least nowadays many companies and universities have whole departments devoted to usability. The technical communications departments definitely have a usability aspect to them. Often they will hire a firm to sort of go into a jury room with their user's guides and see if they can actually use and understand them. Usability has become a very big issue in the past couple of decades. With international communication a lot of document-sharing and cross-functional teams can be implemented. A company might assign a team of people to put together the documentation that includes not just the writers and editors but some of the actual development engineers and a person from usability staff. All those people have to be trained. I guess that's it primarily. There are these new presentation tools. Everybody puts his presentation into PowerPoint now.
I wanted to ask you about that, because you mentioned putting cartoons into slides years ago. I know from my experience in those days it probably involved putting it on a photo stand, masking the cartoon, taking a photograph and turning it into an actual physical slide.
On the one hand PowerPoint sort of replaces that, and that makes it easier. However there is a well-known academic turned consultant named Edward Tufte who is very critical of PowerPoint. I don't know if you have run across his work.
Yes I have.
I think he started as a statistician, and became a consultant on how to present statistics, and then turned to public communication more broadly. He has written several popular books, and the most recent claimed that PowerPoint is hurting communication at corporations and other venues, because it forces the presenter into a very narrow and simplified scheme.
I have not actually read them cover to cover, but I have browsed through all of Tufte's books. I think his descriptions of various ways to use graphics and make it meaningful and understandable are absolutely wonderful. I can empathize that PowerPoint is doing exactly as he says. There is not a whole lot of choice nowadays. Unless speakers or engineers have a big graphics support department, they are forced to do much of their own creativity at their own terminals. Microsoft is sort of a monopoly, so PowerPoint has sort of become "it," just as Excel has become "it" for spreadsheets, and Word has become "it" for word processors. I use WordPerfect for my word processing. I think it's a much better word-processing program than Word. I also use Lotus Notes since before IBM bought it. But people send me stuff in Excel and Word, so that is why I buy all of them so that I can open their files and look at them. I empathize with Tufte, but if he thinks he can change it he has got a very hard job.
Many people have tried go up against Microsoft and few have succeeded.
Right. I think basically – at least academically or theoretically – he is right, but in a practical sense I don't think a whole lot is going to happen. Individuals do not have the resources to create the kind of graphics that he has espoused and written about.
Interactions of academia, the IEEE, and the PCS
You mentioned academic studies of communication. How much does the work of the PCS overlap with or be informed by the work of communication schools at universities, which are often schools of communication and library science? For example, the IEEE Center is affiliated with Rutgers University, and at Rutgers there is a School of Information and Library Sciences (SCILS). SCILS includes psychologists, sociologists, and so forth. How does the technical writer get involved with that?
Our membership is very broad. It is not limited by any means to academia, but within academia it is broad and it does include psychologists and so forth. Generally we have people who know about the various psychological studies and if they are oriented towards technical communication we are one of the journals of choice for that kind of publication. Of course our editors are supposedly very active in trying to solicit that kind of thing so they do not limit themselves to the one university in which they work.
The PCS is really an IEEE society that had impact outside of engineering and technology narrowly construed, because there are all these other areas where "technical" meaning non-layperson communication. It could be in medicine or law, for example. Lawyers have to communicate technically in the sense that law has certain techniques that must be followed. Therefore we have an impact more broad than just electrical engineering.
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Absolutely. In fact, I would not be at all surprised if our effect was much broader. I think that many people in the IEEE and many societies have simply never heard of us. I think we have a greater effect outside the IEEE than inside. It has been very frustrating to try to get our foot in the door. We have more effect outside in a variety of fields. I mentioned the patent issues and books that we did, which had very broad distribution. If a communication professor studies some kind of medical publication or psychological publication or something else, it could very easily wind up in our Transactions or maybe even more likely at one of our conferences. So, the position of PCS within IEEE has been frustrating. These other academics have recognized our value for some time, but it is only since maybe the late '90s that the IEEE agreed that a bachelor's degree in technical communication was adequate and sufficient for a membership in the IEEE. Previously one had to show an engineering or physics degree or something like that in order to get in. It has only been a decade since they agreed to accept a technical communication degree.
That must have been a boost for the PCS.
Absolutely. We were very happy to see that. Of course it came about because of our lobbying for it. The problem is we have no Fellows who became Fellows because of communication ability. It's a catch-22. We can propose someone who is like Tufte and a light in communications, but they are never chosen as Fellows because there are no other Fellows in the field to recommend or support them. Therefore we are currently lobbying IEEE to get some kind of relief from that — to be able to propose a Fellow and have only, say, a senior member's recommendation or several senior members, because all the Fellows have gotten there from some technical innovation.
Right. As you say, you need the foot in the door because once you have a dozen Fellows then they can look around and nominate other individuals to join them.
Then the IEEE would feel that they are qualified to choose a next Fellow. We have not got that at present. Some of our members are Fellows, but they became Fellows by virtue of their purely technical work.
They should use that to help you lobby effectively.
We're trying.
It sounds to me like we are looking at a good time for professional communication going forward. It is needed more than ever, and there seems to be creeping awareness by the powers that be that it is needed. Are you optimistic for the future?
Yes, definitely. We have a large membership outside the IEEE, people interested – associates or affiliates, whatever they are called – and then libraries that subscribe to the Transactions. We have trouble around the IEEE because if an engineer is going to spend the amount of money it costs for a yearly subscription fee, he heads for a technical journal or book rather than our communication. That is understandable. In the same way, in going to a conference he might very well have to pay a registration fee of $500. He is therefore going to put that money toward a technical conference as opposed to one of ours. Therefore we have great difficulties making any real headway within the IEEE.
Right. If you can raise awareness outside, if the companies might come back to the engineers and say, "We give you time off to go off to conferences. Maybe you should consider this communication conference this year rather than a technical conference, because that would help your job performance." Then that will raise the awareness and the cooperation of IEEE.
Theoretically, absolutely yes. I am sure that does happen to some small extent, but you take a department manager in an engineering firm who may have five or ten engineers working for him, and in the past few decades he's got tight budgets and he is not going to make that kind of a choice. He might buy a book, he might have an invited speaker on technical communication, he might allow one of his engineers to do one of these online courses or distance learning, but when they are talking $500 or a new subscription they first think of technical. Those discussions are often made at the line of the first-level manager. It is creeping in, but it is slow and hard.
Interesting. This has been a fascinating interview. We have covered all the ground I hoped to cover. Is there anything I did not cover that you would like to say for the record about your career or about professional communication inside or outside the IEEE?
The evolution of communication as a two-way electronic medium
I think probably the most important boost in communication over the past thirty years has been turning communication into a two-way electronic medium. We had television back in the '40s and '50s and we had the telephone. Finally the Internet and email came along. Email was not generally available to the public until '83. Then the web was invented roughly in '89 or '90. The Internet and email have been very big in expanding communication in all forms. Before that, less well-known but important innovations were computer-based text processing and intranets within companies. Text processing has made a lot of things possible nowadays, but basically I think the Internet were the primary tool for the past thirty years to expand communication from telephone to the kinds of things we now do online.
Do you believe these are positive developments?
Oh yes, absolutely. I am a great fan of email.
The new thing out of course is instant messaging. There are even companies that are introducing instant messaging in their intranets.
I never took to that. I do not want to be available. In fact, I have a cell phone but I don't carry it. I don't really use it. I prefer the asynchronous. I do not want to be that beholden to whoever is on the other end.
I am in complete agreement. I am also an email fan, and I try not to use my cell phone. The thing about email is that it is both asynchronous and instantaneous. You send the message instantaneously and that person receives it when they want and they deal with it when they want. It can be fast or slow. I find it a very useful medium.
Absolutely. I have broadband. It is tremendous.
Status of the PCS within the IEEE
Any final words? This has been extremely interesting and I appreciate very much your taking all this time.
PCS has a very good set of officers right now. I am quite active, and everyone is looking forward to our 50th Anniversary. If I might be slightly negative, you would not be interviewing me were it not for the fact that PCS is having a 50th Anniversary. You, like most other people in the IEEE, have simply not known about us.
I have to plead guilty. The oral histories come to us in various ways. When people win the IEEE Medal of Honor of something like that we feel we should interview them. Often in recent times we work with technical societies, but if I was not looking directly at PCS and I went to the Board of Directors and said, "Name the ten top people in IEEE fields that we have not yet interviewed that you think we should interview," I am sure that none of them would have been a PCS person.
I am afraid you are correct.
They would be the Computer Society and the Communications Society, the Signal Processing Society and maybe the Power Engineering Society. And yet you are really the backbone of what engineering is all about, which is bringing something to the real world for people to be able to use.
Yes. And we have more awareness outside the IEEE than inside.
Okay. Thank you very, very much. I appreciate it very much.
You're welcome. I enjoyed going back over these things.
- 1 About Rudy Joenk
- 2 About the Interview
- 3 Copyright Statement
- 4 Interview
- 4.1 Education and military service
- 4.2 Ph.D. studies, employment at IBM, and early professional affiliations
- 4.3 IBM Journal of Research and Development
- 4.4 Professional communication and the IEEE
- 4.5 Editorship of the Professional Communication Society of the IEEE (PCS) Transactions
- 4.6 Transition to IBM Patent Department in Boulder, Colorado
- 4.7 IBM Information Development Department; technical writing and product manuals
- 4.8 Professional Communication Society conferences
- 4.9 Changes in the professional communication field
- 4.10 PowerPoint
- 4.11 Interactions of academia, the IEEE, and the PCS
- 4.12 The evolution of communication as a two-way electronic medium
- 4.13 Status of the PCS within the IEEE


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