Some (many) or even all of you may have read the Taylor piece in the NYT on the end of the university.  The link to it is:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinion/27taylor.html

The piece itself has generated a lot of discussion, but this email is on a different issue.  While reading the comments on this piece, I noticed there are many hostile remarks back and forth and wonder about "the decline of civil discourse." What has been your experience with students involved with electronic discourse in your courses?  What about outside courses?  What has been your personal experience?  Is the electronic medium causing a decline in civil discourse?

Thanks.

Mr. James B. Greenberg
Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center
Milne Library
SUNY College at Oneonta
Oneonta, New York 13820

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