Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!world!sug.std.com!peter From: peter@sug.std.com (Peter Salus) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: Why not pick *nice* places for the Usenix conventions? Message-ID: <1991Jun26.135657.21093@world.std.com> Date: 26 Jun 91 13:56:57 GMT References: <1991Jun23.115443.484@ircam.fr> <876@taniwha.UUCP> Sender: usenet@world.std.com (NNTP News Poster) Organization: The Sun User Group Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: sug.std.com In article <876@taniwha.UUCP> paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) writes: >In article bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes: >>Actually, all sites are subject to change, of course, if something >>disasterous occurs. With all the discussion of the heat and humidity and surroundings, I'd like to insert an entirely different criterion into the decision process. After the barbaric behavior of the Chicago police at the 1968 National Convention, the Modern Language Association, the Linguistic Society of America, and many other organizations refrained from meeting in Chicago until Mayor Daley (Sr.) and his cronies were gone. Similar action was taken where the states voting against the ERA were concerned. I'm horrified that USENIX will be meeting in New Orleans, in a state that has the most repressive view of women's right to choice of all the fifty states. I'm as uncomfortable as everyone else in the heat, but I find socio-political attitudes excessively chilling. Peter -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sun User Group, Inc; Suite 315; 1330 Beacon St.; Brookline, MA 02146 voice +1 617 232-0514 fax +1 617 232-1347