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China News Digest - US Regional Services (Bo Xiong) --------------- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 03:10:50 GMT Reply-To: hq@IFCSS.ORG Sender: Newsletter on Chinese Community From: Ifcss Hq Subject: HQ NR #7065: A Novel E-Mail Account Set for Lobbying Simpson Bill & Communications between HQ and CSS Community Comments: To: pbs-l@ifcss.org, council-l@ifcss.org Comments: cc: china-nt@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU To: Multiple recipients of list CCNL Status: RO * * * N E W S R E L E A S E 7065 * * * _________ December 5, 1995 __________ [[[[[[ [[[[[[[[[[ [[[[[[ [[[[[[[ [[[[[[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ ______ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[[[[[[ [[[ [[[[[ [[[[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[[[ [[[[[ ______ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ ____ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[[ [[[ [[[[ [[[ [[[[[[ [[[[[[ [[[[[[[ [[[[[[[[ [[[[[[[[ &^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^ IFCSS Foundation, Inc. 733 15th Street, NW Suite 440 Washington, D.C. 20005 Tel: (202) 347-0017 Fax: (202) 347-0018 &=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&= A Novel E-Mail Account Set for Lobbying Simpson Bill & Communications between HQ and CSS Community 1. A Novel E-Mail Account Which Can Reach All Senators's Addresses The IFCSS Chinese Community Information Center (CCIC) has just set up an account, Simpson_bill@ifcss.org, which can reach all Senators' e- mail accounts, including ten Republicans and eight Democrats, except one whose email address is still not available. The IFCSS didn't use S 1394 as the header of this account because the bill will be renamed very soon after its merge with S 269. Simpson's office will determine the new name in a few days. Please feel free to make use of this account while you want to send a mail to all Senators in Senate Judiciary Committee. Please remem- ber, while you send a message, your voice is registered. Write your message to: Simpson_bill@ifcss.org * * * * * 2. Partial Communications between the Headquarters and members in CSS community [HQ's Note] The Headquarters has received over three hundred pieces of mails regarding Simpson bill, suggestions and comments. We tried to respond to every individual mails in the past, and here we only pre- sent you severel ones due to the limit of the space. Thanks for your attention. ___ ___ ___ From: xxx@eel.ufl.edu Dear IFCSS fellows, Thanks so much for the effort. I found that the list in the above HQ NR #7058 had an error: Dr. Lombardi is the President of our Univer- sity of Florida, not North Florida. Please correct it if you could. We, CSSA in UF, also contacted Dr. Lombardi and other key university officials asking them to lobby the Bill. The following is a direct quote from Dr. Lambardi's reply email. "Hi, we have been watching this bill with great concern and we have mobilized a variety of people and organizations to lobby this issue. We hope we will succeed and your letters to the legislature will be very helpful. Thanks. John " * * * * * From: xxxx@ksu.ksu.edu> I have noticed in the list of University presidents, you posted in the CND, a few state universities are missing. These universities are research universities, replying on high quality foreign students: (32 institutions are omitted) * * * * * From: xxxxxx@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU Five CSSA leaders and students will held a major Congregation at Univ- ersity of Chicago on Dec. 2nd, to wage a second major drive against S1394, trying to reach the senators and presidents of the following five universities: U of Chicago, NW Univ., U of IL at Chicago, Loyola Univ. and IL Inst. Of Tech. Also a massive signature drive will be initiated. Major Speakers include: Elain Jin--Presidents. of UC and CSSA-Greater Chicago; John J. Lin- Ex. Pres. of UIC and VP of Chicago Chinese Computing Professional; Ye, Miao- Pres. of Loyola Uni. Ex. Editor of ACCA News; Zhidong Wang -Lawyer; etc. * * * * * From: xxxx@bioc.rice.edu I believe IFCSS has done its best for Chinese students. No matter what happens, I appreciate what IFCSS has done for our Chinese fellows including the CSPA. although I am not eligible for it. I will support IFCSS in the future. Thanks to all of you very much. * * * * * From: xxxxxx@caip.rutgers.edu I thought some of you might enjoy and/or find useful the following advocacy letter written to the Senate Immigration Subcommittee by a student in Computer Science. ___ ___ ___ I am most familiar with the science and engineering academic/indus- trial world, and will focus the remainder of my comments on that area. Consider the large, high-profile high-technology companies which developed as small spin-offs from university research projects. Texas Instruments, EG&G, Digital Equipment Corporation, Bolt Beranek & Newman, Sun Microsystems, Bose Corporation, Silicon Graphics and MIPS Computer Systems, Netscape Communications. Just in the past seven years in the Pittsburgh area, where I am, we've seen resea- rchers from the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Sci- ence start up a number of companies ( Transarc Corporation, FORE Systems, Carnegie Group) which have brought hundreds of high-paying and attractive jobs to the region. Local civic leaders and repre- sentatives (including Sen. Specter) continuously stress the import- ance of the growth of the high-technology sector and the growing tax base, led by companies such as these. Elsewhere, the growth of Silicon Valley and along "Route 128" in Massachusetts, was due to their proximity to the Boston and Bay Area universities. But the technology which drove these companies in their developing years came from university research environments. The pre-trained technical expertise which these companies required when these compa- nies were "start-ups" came from university faculty and their former students, many of them foreign-born. The growth and development of these companies could have been hobbled by amendments such as those introduced by S.1394. These new companies create high-quality jobs for Americans, but if they would have been prevented from hiring the best and most appropriate people when starting out, who knows if they would have become as successful as they are today! In these days of global communications, companies can carry on busi- ness across borders at low cost. The amendments of S.1394 could encourage a new high-tech enterprise to relocate partially or entir- ely to a more amenable country, in order to be able to hire the people they feel are required. By encouraging this possibility, the S.1394 COULD DRIVE JOBS OUT OF THE UNITED STATES, increasing unempl- oyment rather than decreasing it! The S.1394 restricting the employment of new immigrants are motiva- ted by a desire to protect American jobs for Americans. But this bill is short-sighted. Higher-educated foreign students create jobs in the long-, and even medium-term, by helping to build successful "start-up" firms, that, if successful, go one to create high-paying, high-quality jobs. Written by: Stewart M. Clamen, clamen@cs.cmu.edu School of Computer Science -- Carnegie Mellon Univ. 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891, USA URL: >http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~clamen/ ********************************************************************* * PBS-L is IFCSS's news distribution list for individuals. To sign * * on or off from the list, please send email to listserv@ifcss.org * * leave the subject line open and put in the mail body: * * (For signing on) sub PBS-L last name first name * * (For signing off) unsub PBS-L last name first name * * For more information about IFCSS, write to ifcss-info@ifcss.org * *********************************************************************