Dear future and current Graduate students and faculty, If you are not aware of current details of the GOP Tax Plan, please read this Forbes article with vigilance and with consideration to your legislators. Kindest regards, Robert A. Washington-Allen Assistant Professor of Geography Environmental Tomography Laboratory Department of Geography University of Tennessee 304 Burchfiel Geography Building 1000 Phillip Fulmer Way Knoxville, TN 37996-0925 Cell: 979-571-4330 e-mail: washingtonra@<mailto:[log in to unmask]>utk.edu<http://utk.edu/> website: http://geography.utk.edu/about-us/faculty/dr-robert-washington-allen/ & Associate Professor Environmental Tomography Laboratory Department of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Veterinary Science (ANVS) College of Agriculture, Biotechnology, & Natural Resources (CABNR) University of Nevada, Reno Mail Stop 202 Reno, NV 89557 From the Rivals & Discovers of the Calculus: "God has chosen the world that is the most perfect,that is to say, the one that is at the same time the simplest in hypotheses and the richest in phenomena." — Leibniz "I can calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people." --- Isaac Newton From: ABS Program <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of "Lacher Jr, Thomas E" <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: "Lacher Jr, Thomas E" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at 10:33 PM To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: [ABS-Program] Assault on graduate education All ABS and EEB graduate students. Read this article carefully and write to your legislators. https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/11/07/the-gop-tax-plan-will-destroy-graduate-education/#ffdbf443d2f1 Dr. Thomas E. Lacher, Jr., Professor Note my New Address: Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences 254 Wildlife, Fisheries and Ecological Sciences Bldg. Phone: 979-255-6131 (cell) Skype name: thomas.lacher1