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From: rick@uunet.uu.net (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: Places to hold conferences
Summary: no political biases
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Date: 1 Jul 91 02:57:14 GMT
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In article <15157@ector.cs.purdue.edu>, spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) writes:
> I should clarify something from my previous post:
> 
> I am not aware of the board actually voting on whether or not to hold
> something in Arizona.  I was told by Ellie Young that the Board would
> likely never approve a meeting in Arizona because of the political
> implications.   Speaking informally with Mike O'Dell and Ed Gould at
> the last SEDMS gave me no indication otherwise.   

I am not aware of ANY evidence that the USENIX board does, has or will
take local politics into account when chosing the location of a
"technical" conference.

There is absolutely no official or unofficial board position on the topic
of Arizona (or New Orleans). It has not been discussed and I dont expect
it to be discussed.

Those three individuals certainly are not speaking for the entire board on
this matter.


---rick
A board member, but not speaking for the entire board.