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From: TR Young <TR.Young@uvm.edu>
Subject: Re: question about travel $$$
Tom: what is the topic/content of your paper?  What the conference?

                                                        TR

At 05:18 PM 1/29/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>  I was wondering if anyone had any helpful suggestions about securing 
>travel funds. I am hoping to go to a conference this summer in Japan. 
>I've had a paper approved and am psyched to go to this. However, it's 
>probably going to cost at least $1,600 just for the flight alone - and 
>like many, if not most of us (I assume), I don't have that kind of cash 
>sitting in my checking acccount. 
>
>  So, does anyone have any suggestions? I'm in the process of asking my 
>university, though they're so busy these days building expensive business 
>school and engineering buildings and issuing budgetary freeze memos to 
>the departments that I'm less than confident that they're going to be 
>willing to help me out. 
>
>  Incidentally, this is a conference in my primary area of 
>specialization, and its a conference that meets irregularly. So, aside 
>from my wanting to go for the fun of experiencing a different culture
>first hand, the fact that I'd be presenting amongst those whose work is 
>important to my own would mean a great deal to me. 
>
>  Thanks for any positive suggestions. 
>
>Tom Conroy
>Boston University
>Dept. of Sociology 
>
>