Here is an alert sent from MIT to a community college listserve at the University of Kentucky. It then made its way onto the "Red Rock Eater" listserve, and finally, only a few hours later, made its way to "cu-itp" (whatever that is), a listserve housed at the University of Colorado.

To: Multiple recipients of list <cu-itp@lists.colorado.edu>
Subject: student aid (fwd)
From: }{ans Mueller <Hans.Mueller@Colorado.EDU>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 22:37:17 -0700
From cu-itp@lists.colorado.edu Mon Mar 20 22: 44:55 1995
Reply-To: Hans.Mueller@Colorado.EDU
Sender: cu-itp@lists.colorado.edu

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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 13:00:46 -0800
From: Phil Agre <pagre@weber.ucsd.edu>
To: rre@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: student aid

Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 05:55:04 EST
From: Rich Cowan <kowan@AI.MIT.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list COMMCOLL <COMMCOLL@UKCC.UKY.EDU>
Subject: ORGANIZE to Save Student Aid (National Discussion)

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** PLEASE REPOST and PASS ON to STUDENTS** 3/17/94

To students, faculty and staff angry about proposed higher ed cuts:

To serve the growing campus movement to protest the attacks on higher
education, and specifically the plans to slash financial aid, we have
set up an email list to further communication by groups working to
stop this dangerous piece of the proposed "Contract With America."

The list is called CAN-ER (Campus Activists' Network, Educational
Rights); so far there are about 500 subscribers. UCP's Center for
Campus Organizing is lending this email list to Student Aid Action, US
Pirg, USSA, and other groups to organize national action, including
participation by student aid advocates in the March 29 National Day of
Campus Action Against the Contract With America.

To prevent excess email volume, this list is "screened" by Sarah
Lund of Student Action Coalition at Kent State. You are invited to
subscribe to the email list; you may unsubscribe at any time.

1. TO SUBSCRIBE, send email to: canet@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
with a subject of "canet" whose body just says:
sub can-er Firstname Lastname

CAN-ER is now set up to send you one big message per day.

2. TO SEND A MESSAGE to the list, you must be subscribed. E-mail it to:
can-er@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

3. TO UNSUBSCRIBE, send email to: canet@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
with a subject of "canet" whose body ONLY says:
unsub can-er

4. TO RECEIVE LOTS OF LITTLE MESSAGES, rather than a "digest"
version of CAN-ER (1 big message per day), send e-mail to:
canet@pencil.cs.missouri.edu with subject "canet" and body:
set can-er mail ack

To undo this use "digest" in place of "ack".

5. For a list of Campus Activists' Network discussions, send email to:
canet-info@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

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For more information please contact:

Student Aid Action, 795 Livermore Ave., Yellow Springs, OH 45387
513-767-9607 22 hour hotline email:smoon@college.antioch.edu

Student Action Coalition, Box 68, KSC, KSU, Kent, Ohio 44242-0001
(Please E-mail for phone number) email: slund@kentvm.kent.edu
Contact person - Sarah Lund, Director

UCP Center for Campus Organizing, Box 748, Cambridge, MA 02142
617-354-9363 11am-7pm email:ucp@igc.apc.org

US PIRG Higher Ed. Project, 218 D St. SE, Washington, DC 20003
202-546-9707 -- Ivan Frishberg email:ivan@essential.org

US Student Association, 815 15th St. NW, Washington, DC 20005
202-347-USSA -- Laura McClintock email:ussa@aascu.nche.edu

NAGPS -- National Association of Graduate and Professional Students
Tony Rosati, Information Exchange Coord. rosati@gusun.acc.georgetown.edu

Note: If you write a letter to your congressperson in standard letter
form and send it to: SAVE-STUDENT-AID@NETCOM.COM it will be printed
out and delivered by hand. The zip code to use is 20515.

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If interested in the March 29 National Day of Action please send email to:

call@pencil.cs.missouri.edu to receive the "Call to Action" or
cwa@pencil.cs.missouri.edu to receive a 30-page organizing packet
press@pencil.cs.missouri.edu to receive the March 29 press release
beginning on March 24.

There is also a separate email discussion on organizing a campus
response to the right's agenda. Subscribe as described above,
substituing "can-rw" for "can-er".