Hi all,<br><br>We are only about a month away from our conference, and I wanted to update you on, and remind you of, a few things: <br><br>(1) SCLC begins at <b>9:00 am Fri Jun 15</b> and continues until <b>12:30 pm Sun Jun 17</b>.<br>
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(2) For those of you staying in campus housing, your rooms should be available beginning 2:00 pm on Thurs Jun 14. Your rooms will be at the <b>Margaret Amini </b>and<b> K.K. Amini Halls</b>, 1312 and 1318 Louisiana St., between 13th and 14th (on the campus map, attached below, find the green numbers 122 and 124 and you're there). They are among the newest and most modern accommodations KU has to offer. It is about a 10-15 min. walk from these Halls to <b>Wescoe</b> at 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., where the conference room will be. The first part of the walk from the Halls will be slightly uphill, but not steep. (Walking downtown from there, though, will entail a steep climb coming back.) There is a parking lot at the Amini Halls. There is no smoking or alcoholic beverages allowed in the rooms.<br>
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(3) For those of you with cars, on Fri you will have to pay <b>$8.00</b> for an <b>all-day parking pass</b>, if you are driving onto campus and parking by Wescoe (where there are parking spots in back, or at any <b>yellow zone</b> parking space). You don't need to worry about this on the weekend, as parking and campus access is not restricted on those days. (You will have to stop at the <b>Docking Family</b> campus gate on Jayhawk Blvd. en route to Wescoe from your Halls rooms; this is where you pay on Fri.) Also, for anyone driving who has a disabled placard, you can get a pass at this gate to park in special zones behind Wescoe.<br>
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(4) The Amini Halls are a short walk (about a block) from the new <b>Oread Hotel </b>(or-ree-ad; not shown on the attached map, but it's right at the end of Oread Ave. across from the International House). The Oread's 10 floors include gathering rooms, eateries (e.g., Jimmy John's, Slice of History Pizza, Five 21 Restaurant, Be Sweet), Starbucks, and several bars, including themed lounges on each parking garage level (one with dancing floor), and a 9th floor terrace with views of Lawrence with food and drinks. There is also a breakfast bar beginning each morning at 7:00.<br>
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(5) The <b>last</b> day for making campus room reservations at the Halls is <b>Sun May 20</b> (next Sunday). After this time there is no guarantee of room availability and you may have to stay in other lodgings. <br><br>
(6) <b>No meals</b> are included with your rooms, although bringing in your own snacks is fine. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner will have to be taken away from the Halls at the Oread or other places around town. (The <b>Wescoe cafeteria</b> will be open for lunch only on Friday.)<br>
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(7) If you are flying into Kansas City (MCI), please let us know what your planned arrival time is. There are three of us (Bob, Kathy, me) that can make up to three pick-ups. I have not yet received info on the KU shuttle to be run by CoLang starting Sunday pm, but it is a possibility you can take this back to the airport to avoid expensive taxi or shuttle charges. (More on this when I find out for sure.)<br>
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(8) If you have not yet submitted an abstract (not required) but would like to, you can send it along anytime. We can put abstracts received with the schedule later on.<br><br>On another note, we are thinking of having a side table in the conference room (besides one for snacks and drinks) for books related to Siouan or Caddoan languages and linguistics that have been published in the past couple of years or so, or ones that you would like to otherwise advertise. I'm thinking we may only need a single copy as a reference copy with perhaps a note as to where to order it. How does this sound to everyone?<br>
<br>Here are a couple of maps to help you get your bearings: <br><a href="http://www.maps.ku.edu/">http://www.maps.ku.edu/</a> (campus map: use the onscreen hand to "pull" the map to where you want to go)<br><a href="http://admissions.ku.edu/visit/maps.shtml">http://admissions.ku.edu/visit/maps.shtml</a><br>
<br>This is all for now; we'll be in touch!<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>David Kaufman, Ph.C.<br>University of Kansas<br>Linguistic Anthropology<br><br>