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Open Door Policy

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Emerson Hall has two sets of heavy wooden, doors, both quite pleasing to the eye. As doors go they are fairly difficult to open and as classes come and go, they are damn near impossible to open. This is because everybody and his grandmother stands outside while classes change and discusses the weather and headlines for just a moment.

Now we're as much in favor of freedom of speech as anybody, but there is something to the clear and present danger concept. Someday somebody's going to pull a muscle trying to get out of Emerson. The windows of Emerson are too high to afford another entrance, and the University has not seen fit to open the other half of the doors. It's up to the student in the street to solve this problem.

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