Good idea, Russ. Happy to help draft something next week.
$0.02 more of my opinion as background:
Jyllian’s writings regarding the death of Sheri Sangji at UCLA and all the activities which followed it were I believe revelatory and quite important reporting for the safety profession, academic safety in particular. She understood the subject
matter and her audience in a way that was obviously not the case for the many many other writers who also covered some components of that news story. It’s a news story, yes, but it’s also about a young person, full of promise, who died. Jyllian captured
that aspect in ways that others didn’t seem to, to me.
Ditto with the Yale incident in which Michele Dufault was killed and the Hawaii incident where Thea Elkins-Coward lost her arm. These are important stories for our profession; C&EN, Jyllian Kelmsley in particular, is where I looked for coverage
of these stories and other safety-related events around the world because no one did it better. That ACS not only doesn’t seem to care about this in-house expertise they built but actually has already jettisoned that expertise and effectively dumped it in
a garbage can is extremely troubling to me.
Dan
On Dec 17, 2022, at 4:26 AM, rphifer**At_Symbol_Here**wcenvironmental.com wrote:
Perhaps CHAS as a Division could develop a petition to condemn this action? I suspect we could get hundreds of members to sign on.
Russ
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From: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU>
On Behalf Of ken kretchman
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2022 2:25 PM
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Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Jyllian Kemsley removed at C&EN
Yes..thank you for the heads up.
I believe, largely thanks to Jyllian, C&EN has had such excellent content over the years, that it serves as a magnet
for membership, I expect even beyond the chemistry community. I am naive as to internal workings within ACS, but I wonder what
effect this will have on membership.
Ken Kretchman, CIH, CSP, FAIHA
RETIRED EHS DIRECTOR FROM NC STATE UNIVERSITY
Hello, everyone:
I am a CHAS member, and I joined CHAS because of reading about CHAS thanks to Jyllian Kemsley's work in C&EN. Her position was eliminated on Monday. The context:
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The magazine was moved from the Publications Division to the Communications, threatening the editorial independence and reputation of the magazine.
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Staff attrition has annihilated both headcount and morale, but they have continued to put out an excellent publication, week after week.
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On Monday, the Editor in Chief (Bibiana Campos-Seijo) and most senior editor (and my friend) Jyllian Kemsley were separated in a move to shift focus from covering science to covering the internal events of the American Chemical Society.
As a member of the C&EN Advisory Board, I am sounding the alarm and asking you to be aware of these changes and help us stop them. I've signed the linked open letter.
https://kitchenchemistry.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-the-membership
Best wishes, Jim Tung
DCHAS member
Portland Local Section Councilor
C&EN Advisory Board member (2015-present)
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