Re: Activities Requirement for First Class
Marc W. Solomon (m_solomon@ALLI.COM)
Tue, 20 Aug 1996 12:35:25 -0500
At 04:08 PM 8/20/96 GMT, Bruce E. Cobern wrote:
>On Aug 20, 1996 09:20:12, '"Paul S. Wolf" <aa854@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>'
>wrote:
>
>
>>The actual wording is as follows:
>>
>>3. Since joining, have participated in ten separate
>>troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol
>>meetings), three of which included camping overnight.
>>
>>I would interpret it as a MINIMUM of 3 campouts. But I could be wrong.
>>
>I would agree with you that there is an implicit "at least" in that
>requirement, but this is one more example of either sloppy drafting or
>microinterpretation, I'm not sure which. I would love to say the latter,
>but it would be so simple to have included the words "at least" if that is
>what they meant.
I was originally going to ignore this thread but it has become too comical.
This is NOT an example of sloppy drafting! It says clearly that three of
the events must be camping overnight. Therefore, four, five, six, . . .
activities that included camping overnight would meet this requirement.
Have they stopped teaching logic and English in this country? The statement
says what it says quite clearly without any room for misiniterpretation (I
thought) by anyone who knows the language and the syntax of English!
YIS,
Marc Solomon Unit Commissioner
m_solomon@alli.com Sycamore District
marcsol@aol.com Blackhawk Area Council (IL)
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