[13033] in APO-L
CLARIFICATION TO Summer Conferences...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Liston Bias)
Fri Oct 20 12:18:58 1995
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 11:15:42 -0500
Reply-To: bias@OSUUNX.UCC.OKSTATE.EDU
From: Liston Bias <bias@OSUUNX.UCC.OKSTATE.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.91.951020105536.25643A-100000@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu>
I meant to send my last response to Richard Vehlow personally and did not
realize that it would be interpreted as a SLAM. The note was not meant to
SLAM anyone.
I was just venting my frustration on repeated arguments by same person and
non-opinion postings by alumni leadership. As a person that has been
involved with SGA and multiple organization, one of my pp's is repeating
yourself after your points have been clearly presented. I meant to say
the argument is MOOT (in my opinion) for APO-L until further data can be
collected.
Personally, I am STRONGLY in favor of changing the time of the
conference. I think the last week of December is bad and always have. I
would like to see a 3-4 day spring conference in which we would ask
students in session to take a couple days off from school, but I realize
this is even less popular than summer. In my many years of schooling I
have never had a problem taking time off if planned far enough in advance
and willing to turn in work (or take test) early.
If having a summer conference is a big priority for anyone then fight the
myths. You can't knock the school time off angle, but you can gather
statistics on other things:
How many brothers fly?
Can low fares on flights be guaranteed far in advance?
How much of a difference in hotel cost is there really?
When are schools in summer session (on average)?
How necessary is it that a chapter be nearby right up until conference?
What things are done locally that can't be done from distance?
etc....
If this data can't be collected now, it can certainly be collected at
next National Conference in Phoenix.
Good luck to Richard and anyone else trying to implement this change!
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