Civic engagement and the impending war

Service-Learning Colleagues:

At our institution, Portland Community College, we are currently dealing
with an issue that, for many of us, embodies the spirit of civic
engagement in higher education: the question of whether or not we, as a
group of educators, should collectively voice our opposition to the
impending war against Iraq.  Our faculty union has decided to take
on this issue, and we'll be voting on such a resolution next week: we've
been very encouraged by the level of interest and the dialogue instigated
by this civic activism.

In the interest of encouraging more discourse and debate on campuses
represented by members of this listserv, I'm including below weblinks for
two resolutions that we are now studying as models.  Besides these,
I believe that the University of Montana, University of Wisconsin
(Plattville), and University of California at Santa Cruz have passed
similar resolutions (there may well be others).

Resolution passed by the faculty at Oregon State University:
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~vitulli/OSUResIraq.html

University of Oregon's proposed resolution:
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~assembly/UA0203-1.html

I also have a copy of a draft resolution that will be voted on
by the Oregon chapter of the American Federation of Teachers--if anyone
is interested.

Good luck to those who pursue this. 

Porter Raper
English Department
Portland Community College
Portland, Oregon