Deb: The usual gripes are actually part of the process. What I fail to understand is why people DEFEND museums (or gee, maybe it really isn't their fault so it's the city's fault) for paying the low salaries. Those same communities seem to be able to pay high salaries for positions they value. Remember that regardles of the issues--from a women's right to vote, civil rights, or even something as uninteresting as museum salaries--if people don't stop defending and start raising their voices--nothing and I do mean nothing will be done. John Handley San Francisco