Known World
Heraldic and Scribal Symposium
June 23-25
Event Rules
For the health and safety of our event staff, please minimize your fragrance load and reduce or eliminate perfumes, body sprays, colognes, and the use of other scented personal products while attending KWHSS.
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Each attendee must wear their event badge at all times when in event spaces, including housing spaces, and will require their event badge to enter the housing building.
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No weapons are permitted in Marquette University campus buildings, including the event and housing sites. Marquette's weapons policy prohibits knives as well as firearms. Please do not bring any sort of bladed instrument with you to KWHSS, nor plan to wear one on your person at this event. (Click for more info)
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Marquette University is a tobacco-free campus. No use of any tobacco or tobacco-like products (including cigarettes, cigarellos, cigars, pipes, vapes, snuff, chew, e-cigarettes, etc.) is permitted in or on all campus property, including all interior spaces, grounds, and outdoor property. Use of tobacco products is permitted on city sidewalks only. (Click for more info)
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No alcohol is permitted at the event site (William Wehr Physics Building). Alcohol consumption is permitted only in private sleeping rooms of the housing site (Straz Tower), with the doors closed, and when all persons present in the room are of legal drinking age. Other than in the private sleeping rooms of adults of legal drinking age, with doors closed, no alcohol is permitted on campus.
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Gambling of any nature is strictly prohibited on Marquette University property.
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Pets are not permitted in University facilities, except for service animals. Please advise during pre-registration if you will be traveling with a service animal.
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For housing rules, click here.
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THE SCA PROHIBITS HARASSMENT AND BULLYING OF ALL INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS.
Participants engaging in this behavior are subject to appropriate sanctions. If you are subjected to harassment, bullying or retaliation, or if you become aware of anyone being harassed or bullied, contact a seneschal, President of the SCA, or your Kingdom's Board Ombudsman.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes, each of the indoor spaces (classroom and social), with the exception
of the Road Show space due to the large size of the room, will have its own HEPA filter running during the entire event. Please let event staff know if you notice the filter light on any of these units flashing red
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Do the Indoor Spaces Have Air Filtration?
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Yes, there are picnic tables and permanent tables, as well as benches
in the gardens of the Joan Chapel adjacent to our event building, and the weather is expected to be lovely for our event weekend, which should allow for outdoor dining for the Saturday event lunch for those who would prefer to not unmask indoors or who would prefer to eat outdoors for whatever reason.
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Is There Outdoor Eating Space Available for Those Who Are Still Masking Indoors, or Who Prefer to Eat Outside?
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Marquette is not far off Lake Michigan, which provides some moderation
of temperatures, but our official weather station at the airport is also not too far from the lake. We expect daytime highs between 70 and 85 F (20 and 30 C), with potential spikes into the low 90's (33ish), and nighttime lows in the upper 60s to low 80s (18-28C). We're a relatively humid climate, and rain is not unusual, but also not constant (last year we had three days of rain in June, and eight days in 2021).
You can see historical data here (in American/F units)
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What Should I Expect for Weather?