Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!rutgers!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!NIHCU!HIS From: HIS@NIHCU.BITNET (Howard Schreier) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.sas-l Subject: SUGI '91 Scheduling Message-ID: Date: 12 Jan 90 21:24:52 GMT Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" Reply-To: Howard Schreier Lines: 18 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway I have just learned that the 1991 SUGI conference (that is, *next* year's) is to begin on Sunday, March 31, 1991, which is both Easter Sunday and the second day of Passover. This scheduling will undoubtedly make it impossible for a number of people to attend and participate. In my opinion, it is also simply inappropriate and inconsiderate. Anyone who agrees may want to ask that the conference be rescheduled (although that is hardly feasible at this relatively late date) and that arrangements for future conferences be made with more care and sensitivity. I suggest directing such messages to Kathy Council, the SAS Institute executive with primary responsibility for SUGI arrangements, and to the members of the SUGI Exec. Committee (perhaps one who is on the list will volunteer to receive communications on this issue).