On Thu, 23 Jan 1992 20:04:11 EST Cal said: >Oregon State University dropped its speech department as of Fall 1991. While >we of the UFVA were convening and drinking the Dean's wine, everything in the s >speech department (or so I understand) was dispersed. Vicky O'Donnell was >lucky, I don't know of the others. > The same happened at University of Oregon (Eugene). The tenured faculty were reassigned to other departments--e.g., Ellen Seiter and Julia Lesage wound up in English. Film, as a division within the Speech Department, just ceased to exist.