Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:08:37 -0400
From: "Juris G. Lidaka" <[log in to unmask]>
To: Chaucer <[log in to unmask]>, Mediev-L <[log in to unmask]>,
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Subject: News from Ka-zoo (fwd)
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Just forwarding. Enjoy. Juris
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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 17:37:29 -0400
From: Old English Newsletter <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: News from Ka-zoo
PLEASE X-POST
1. With functionally a week to go nearly one-half of the
guesstimated attendance of 2800 has sent in registration forms, now
processed. We are working through the several mail bins now. If you are
planning to stay on campus in the dorms, know that we are at the 11th
hour.
2. Hotels. The Radisson announces that it has gone to a waiting
list, and the Holiday-Inn West indicates that the block we reserved is
sold out and that the hotel as a whole is sold out for Friday night, with
Saturday becoming iffy. Congress participants should know that the
Congress prices are real bargains, but that no hotel that stays in
business long offers all its rooms at rockbottom. It might be possible
still to get a regular-priced room for some nights.
3. Online in-room. It will be possible to buy a purchase card at
the Harrison-Stinson lobby (for $10) that will enable a user to access the
WMU mainframe from the dorm room and thus the wide cyber-world. The
purchase card will come with a password.
4. The Vikings! Come to the lobby of the Bernhard Center, second
floor, to see a 21-foot replica of a cargo ship that was part of the
Gokstad ship burial. Built as a high school project from plans furnished
by the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, the ship, we hope, will sail on the
Swan Pond Saturday afternoon about 4 p.m. Ned Eisenhuth and Fred Lutkus,
who were the supervising teachers for the Minersville PA Area Schools,
will be on hand to talk about the ship Friday all day and Saturday
through mid-afternoon. The ship has indeed already sailed in PA.
Do note that the next major public appearance of the 21-footer will be at
the Smithsonian later in May as part of the Leif Ericsson millennial
celebration. When you meet our Pennsyvania Vikings, you will perceive that
excellent and enthusiastic high school teaching is alive and well!
Check out the Viking info off our web-page,
www.wmich.edu/medieval
and click your heart away at that sub-site and the Congress sub-site,
which will inform you of last-minute corrections, such as the resurrection
of Klaus Schmidt's database demo on Friday afternoon at 5:15. Our webster
will put that golden goodie in tomorrow afternoon!
PESz
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