I encouraged them to participate. There’s two ways of doing that. If they came in and said, “Well, I’m scheduled to give a paper.” You should ask permission before you do that first because now you’re trying to commit us to something that we need may not be able to satisfy the commitment to. So, they basically knew that if they wanted to give a paper, that was great and I encouraged that but are you gonna be able to attend the conference first because we can afford for that to happen. And then you take advantage of being able to attend by giving a paper, not in a reverse fashion. That happened too much. Not only did it happen in the beginning at Oklahoma City but I’ve seen it happen in other institutions when you realize that curators aren’t dumb. If they want to go to a conference, they say, “Hey, I’ve been asked to give a paper.” Well okay, that’s great but I’m not sure you’ll be able to.
