March 21, 2003

Travels and Travails as a Guest Speaker and Host

By MICHAEL BERUBE

By MICHAEL BÉRUBÉ

In my first year as a humanities director, at the University of Illinois, I invited a well-known filmmaker to the campus. Her agent's response came over the fax a few days later, with a list of necessaries: so much per day, first-class air travel, four-star accommodations or better. "Well," I said to my associate director, "if you'll float the bond issue, I'll hire the subcontractors -- we haven't got a four-star hotel in Champaign." For

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