Dear colleagues and friends, A number of members of the categories e-list will already be aware that Gabor Lukacs and the mathematics department at the University of Manitoba are involved in a dispute with the university administration over matters of academic standards and even academic freedom. Since Gabor is an active member of our community, we thought you might be interested in a petition we are planning to send to the university early in December. The text of the petition may be read at https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=10YZB9O_W3ljWqxte41VtU2qWQmepkx4yqwDaKq2pdifnHRA7ncE-qbSh8Lap&hl=en&authkey=CNT8_MsO or alternatively downloaded from http://25a8.ch/upload/ProtestUofM.pdf Further information about this incident may be found at http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Campus+torn+dispute+over/3767102/story.html http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/tag/gabor-lukacs/ http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/court-battle-over-phd-106366028.html http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/letters\_to\_the\_editor/disabled-by-exam-stress-letter-of-the-day-106674068.html http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2010/11/03/man-exam-anxiety-lukacs.h... http://profmondo.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/it-doesnt-add-up/ If you are interested in signing this petition, please email gavin.seal@epfl.ch with your name, position, affiliation and e-mail as you want them to appear. The deadline for signing this has been set to Tuesday, 23rd November. Regards, Gavin Seal and Robert Seely [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]