conference details

[Vida Stabler]

Hi Catherine, would you please send me a guest parking permit.  VSS, Box 70,
Walthill, Nebraska  68067.
VS

Catherine Rudin/HU/AC/WSC wrote:

> Just a few little practicalities for those of you attending the Siouan and
> Caddoan conference:
>
> 1.  Parking.
> Parking on campus will be free, but you need a guest permit.  I've got a
> bunch of these and would be happy to send one to anyone who gives me their
> mailing address.  (Alternatively you can just pick one up when you get
> here.  I'll leave some at the motel and dorm front desks, and will have
> some in the meeting room.)
>
> The lot where this permit allows you to park is across campus from the dorm
> and conference building.  Not too far -- about 2 or 3 city blocks -- but if
> walking this far is going to be a big problem for anyone, let me know.
>
> 2.   Maps/locations
> I've also got some campus maps -- like the permits, I could send them out
> if you want one ahead of time.   You can also find a campus map on the web
> -- http://www.wsc.edu/about_campus/map/front.htm
>
> "The Dorm" is Neihardt Hall (named after WSC alumnus John G. Neihardt, of
> "Black Elk Speaks" fame).  It's the first building on the left as you turn
> in at the main entrance to the college (turning into J.G.Lewis Drive off
> Main St).
>
> Paper sessions will be in Humanities Building (3rd building on the right as
> you come in that same entrance), room 319.
>
> For early arrivals ...  pre-conference extremely informal party is at 915
> Logan St.  (1 block south of campus.  Logan is parallel to Main St., one
> block east.)   375-4316.   Thursday evening 7:00 on.   If you show up
> before 7 we'll put you to work chopping veggies or something; feel free.
>
> 3.  Housing
> Just a nudge...  make your reservations soon if you haven't done so.  The
> motel block is held for us only till the 27th.  I don't know of any big
> events that should fill up the motels, but in a 3-motel town it doesn't
> take much.  One wedding could do it.  The dorms also fill up with summer
> sports camps and such...
>
> Forgive me, I can't help myself.  I ran across this in a novel:
>       "When April with its sweet showers has pierced the drought of March
> to the root, and bathed every vein of earth with that liquid by whose power
> the flowers are engendered; when the zephyr, too, with its dulcet breath,
> has breathed life into the tender new shoots [...], then, as the poet
> Geoffrey Chaucer observed many years ago, folk long to go on pilgrimages.
> Only, these days, professional people call them conferences.
>       The modern conference resembles the pilgrimage of medieval
> Christendom in that it allows the participants to indulge themselves in all
> the pleasures and diversions of travel while appearing to be austerely bent
> on self-improvement.  To be sure, there are certain penitential exercises
> to be performed -- the presentation of a paper, perhaps, and certainly
> listening to the papers of others.  But with this excuse you journey to new
> and interesting places, meet new and interesting people, and form new and
> interesting relationships with them [...] eat, drink and make merry in
> their company every evening; and yet, at the end of it all, return home
> with an enhanced reputation for seriousness of mind. "
> A free WSC pencil to anyone who can identify the author.
> (Of course, Siouanists ARE serious-minded, and the "pleasures and
> diversions" to be had in Wayne will consist mostly of listening to each
> others' papers...  :)