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Las Vegas

Fountains at the Bellagio

I had a great time in Las Vegas for the 2008 International Writing Centers Association and National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing joint conference. A fellow Writing Associate and I presented a poster of some research we have done on diversity in Swarthmore’s Writing Center. We went to a great workshop on anti-racist work in the writing center and heard a great keynote address by Nancy Grimm, a scholar whose work we drew on. I also got to meet and hang out with some writing consultants from the Harvey Mudd Writing Center. It was quite fun, and Halloween on the strip was grotesquely intriguing. Of course, the TSA had to do their part in dampening the fun. Apparently, the Las Vegas snow globe that one of my travelmates bought for her niece was too much of a threat to homeland security to pass through the security checkpoint.