This is completely unrelated to your primary problem, which people have apparently already helped you with. You might want to consider improving the style of your code. Firstly, there's no need to have those newlines in their own print statements -- instead you might try: 
print MESSAGE "Full Name: $FORM{name}\n";
Secondly, you might want to bunch all those prints together into a single big print with a here document. It might look like this: 
    print MESSAGE <<EOMSG;
To: $FORM{submitaddress}
From: $FORM{name}
Reply-To: $FORM{email}
Subject: Faculty Bibliography Submission


The following information was submitted from $FORM{name} at $FORM{emai
+l}:

Full Name: $FORM{name}
Publication Name: $FORM{pubname}
Other Authors: $FORM{otherauthors}
Other Editors: $FORM{othereditors}
Main Publication Title: $FORM{pubtitle}
EOMSG

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Finally, an alternative might be to make the generation of the form even more dynamic: 
$longform{name} = "Full Name";
$longform{pubname} = "Publication Name";
...

foreach my $form (keys %longform)
  {
  print MESSAGE "$form: $longform{$form}\n";
  }
...

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The downside to the last idea, of course, is that you lose control over the ordering. Hopefully these ideas will be useful...

In reply to Re: checking for null variables by Improv
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