GALA and BWLG

[M. J. Hardman]

Alice Freed echoed my sentiments on reading the post.  I would like us to
take seriously her two points:

>
>     The most important two points of this message are the
>following: In my opinion:
>
>     1) Before any final decision is made, a GALA-L vote should
>be taken about a possible relationship between GALA and BWLG.
>
>     2) A separate vote should be taken about what sort of
>conference should be held in 2000 and whether it will be a BWLG
>conference that is held with the added support of GALA or whether
>it should be a new and different conference that replaces the
>venerable Berkeley Women and Language Conference.
>
>     ---------------------------------------------
>
>Alice Freed
>Linguistics Department
>Montclair State University
>Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
>freeda at alpha.montclair.edu
>(973) 655-7505