[14735] in APO-L
Re: New topic for discussi
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elizabeth Yow)
Fri Jul 12 15:51:25 1996
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 15:43:30 -0400
Reply-To: Elizabeth Yow <emy@NORFOLK.INFI.NET>
From: Elizabeth Yow <emy@NORFOLK.INFI.NET>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
>> - Or here's an idea: Don't have any stages at all, but let everybody
>> do their roll call from their seats in the audience. This would
>> require that everybody from a chapter sit together (which really isn't
>> a problem anyway). This would save a lot of time in people movement.
>
>This plus the previous idea seem like the best.
The problem I see with this is being able to hear everything (or anything).
Big rooms, like the one the legislative session is held in (and I'm assuming
that's what whoever suggested this was thinking about) don't usually have
great acoustics, and what tends to happen is that all the chatter from
"observers" will drown out anything that a chapter tries to
say/sing/yell/chant/whatever for their roll call, and I don't think we can
get microphones for all the chapters that will be there. Having to pass
around mikes would also probably not work - there would have to be several
of them, the extension cords would have to be really long, some people would
probably abuse them (i.e. talk into them while their supposed to be passing
it), people might trip over them in walking around the area. :(
Since what usually happens is that whoever's running the show calls out a
chapter to do their roll call, and then one or two on-deck chapters, if
people just paid attention to what's going on, it would go smoothly, and
quickly.
Elizabeth
