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...distinguish the Signet from other exclusive organizations, the founding members stated in the original charter that members would be chosen according to "merit and accomplishment." Today, those membership criteria are still present in the club's constitution mandating that members "shall be chosen with regard to their intellectual, literary and artistic ability and achievements...
While the society's original charter states that the aim of the Signet is "to stimulate and promote greater interest and proficiency in letters, the arts and scholarship," members say that their society does little as an organization to stimulate literary activities on campus...
...original charter included a "Hasty Pudding clause" which excluded former members of the Hasty Pudding from membership in the Signet, but that restriction no longer holds...
...small charter companies that fly out of Grand Canyon National Park Airport, Las Vegas and other airports in Arizona, California and Utah argue earnestly that banning aircraft would deprive the elderly, the very young and the handicapped of their only chance to see the Grand Canyon from the inside out. With some 2.5 million visitors each year, the operators maintain, the park would not be serene even if there were no flights. "This is the last place I'd come for peace and quiet," jokes Judy Fogwell of Grand Canyon Helicopters...
Many U.S. holidaymakers are hurriedly lining up presumably safer summer excursions, including Caribbean cruises and even charter tours to Moscow. But above all, Americans this year are deciding that they would rather take in the splendors of their own land, on motor-home jaunts to Disney World, camping trips to U.S. national parks, and surfing safaris to Hawaii. The travel industry expects a jump of 10% or more in domestic bookings this year. Says Harold Van Sumeren, president of the Chamber of Commerce in Traverse City, Mich., a boating and camping mecca: "We're really anticipating one of the biggest...