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...permit on these days because classes will then be in session. The problem with having the convention while classes are in session is not a lack of rooms. Dean Epps said that the reason for denying the request for rooms on those days is a long-established, but unwritten. Faculty rule that a convention can not be held while classes are in session. This rule is necessarily arbitrary because it does not define what constitutes a convention. And its enforcement has been selective--as recently as last Thursday a model United Nations was permitted to convene here. That this unwritten...
Epps told SDS that he could not grant a permit for March 30 and 31 because classes will be in session on those days. He said that a long-standing--though unwritten--Faculty practice did not allow conventions to begin while classes were in session...
...sixty pages of essays tacked on at the end are well worth reading. They all deal with modern post-Eliot and Pound poetry, what Dickey thinks is wrong with it, and where he thinks it should be going. Like everyone else, Dickey has the irrational longing for the unwritten and perhaps unwriteable poetry which would hold up a clear mirror to the way we live now. He does, however, offer some very rational suggestions on how this kind of poetry might be achieved. For one thing, he says, the poet must discard the language of Eliot, Pound, and Empson...
Alfred contends that he made an "unwritten contract" with the store for the purchase of the book as he found it on the shelf at its marked price...
...Administration can easily exploit the sessions to promote a policy line or send vague hints to other capitals, while retaining the option to deny the whole thing later. Last week the Washington Post deliberately broke the unwritten rules for backgrounders and again called the whole practice into serious question...