[19863] in APO-L
Re: The WebCam issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ellen Kranzer)
Tue Jan 5 18:08:23 1999
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 18:08:22 -0500
Reply-To: Ellen Kranzer <ellen_kranzer@HARVARD.EDU>
From: Ellen Kranzer <ellen_kranzer@HARVARD.EDU>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
At 05:35 PM 1/5/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I got a few responses to this, so let me discuss a bit further:
>
>1. "Communication Devices not on the Floor"
> a. I never heard of this rule in the past, and aside from eliminating
> the noise of ringing phones and loud side-chatter, cannot see how
> this is supposed to stop communication with each other and the
> outside world especially with the plethora of note passing.
This rule has been around a long time and the original intent was to ban
things like walkie-talkies to prevent groups with the tech from gaining an
advantage over those who didn't have it. Being able to closely coordinate
when people get up to speak & in which order to offer what ammendments or
interfere with the flow of debate by making points of order could give a
group a large advantage. Chapter mythology says that this rule was
instituted to prevent some floor management plans my home chapter (Alpha
Chi(M.I.T.)) had -- I'm told by a Drexel alum that they also have a similar
belief that their chapter was also a specific target of the rule.
Y.I.S.
c.c.
