This is an announcement for the paper "Weak compactness and Orlicz spaces" by Pascal Lefevre, Daniel Li, Herve Queffelec, and Luis Rodriguez-Piazza. Abstract: We give new proofs that some Banach spaces have Pe{\l}czy\'nski's property $(V)$. Archive classification: math.FA Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B20; 46E30 Citation: Colloquium Mathematicum 112, 1 (2008) 23 - 32 The source file(s), propV-CM.tex: 28111 bytes, is(are) stored in gzipped form as 0904.2970.gz with size 10kb. The corresponding postcript file has gzipped size 77kb. Submitted from: daniel.li@euler.univ-artois.fr The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/0904.2970 or http://arXiv.org/abs/0904.2970 or by email in unzipped form by transmitting an empty message with subject line uget 0904.2970 or in gzipped form by using subject line get 0904.2970 to: math@arXiv.org.