Following from Doug's comments, I would like to relate a short anecdote: Shortly after I joined the economics faculty at the University of Manitoba, I ran for union rep for our faculty constituency which, at that time, was composed of the Economics Department and the Department of Religious Studies. I came second to a Mennonite Minister who was a prominent member of the Religious Studies department. Shortly afterward, however, he became head of his department which made him ineligible to be "shop steward" and hence I, having polled second in the election, was appointed as the new union rep. Many in the university wondered at the organization of the constituency that included economics and religious studies until it was pointed out that there was a strong affinity of thought -- both were based on faith and a belief in the divine hand! Paul Phillips, Economics, University of Manitoba
