Nelson, there are two more alternatives: (1) Students can approach me and others who do field work on a regular basis. If students are willing to help with field work, and learn about butterflies and assist in scientific research in the process, I can pay for most of their field expenses.
(2) Wait for a cheaper meet. Since we have had several expensive meets in the past couple of years, we are planning on keeping the expenses very low for the 2012 meets so that students can afford to attend. If for some reason students want to attend specific meets but cannot afford the fees, then sure, I would not mind pitching in some money for them. With best wishes, Krushnamegh. ________________________________ From: Nelson Rodrigues <[email protected]> Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 19:49:14 -0400 To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Subject: [ButterflyIndia] Encouraging students to join us friends There was a recent letter from a student wanting to join the butterfly meet but was asking for a discount. wonder if it be possible to give students a 25 percent discount for the butterfly meet, i am sure many of us would not mind, paying a little more. after all we were students once upon a time and it was so terribly difficult for us to get funds for anything besides our college related activities or we could put it up to the group, we have 3 or x no of students wanting to join anyone willing to sponsor part of their expense. for a start i would not mind contributing one thousand rupees towards a general student discount for the next meet. any more members willing to help? Nelson Rodrigues -- Enjoy
