Dear Colleagues I haven't been able to thank you all individually for your support for the campaign to prevent the closure of German at Queens but 173 of you contacted me directly and I know that other letters of protest have gone out from WiGs and other bodies so that the Vice Chancellor there must have obtained a good impression of the scale of our concerns. Let's hope it has some effect on the senate meeting today. All the best -- Dr Peter Thompson Director, Centre for Ernst Bloch Studies http://shef.ac.uk/ernstbloch/) Senior Lecturer in German Department of Germanic Studies Jessop West 1 Upper Hanover Street Sheffield S3 7RA tel: 0114 222 4907 fax: 0114 275 1198 Von einem gewissen Punkt an gibt es keine Rückkehr mehr. Dieser Punkt ist zu erreichen. Kafka