A letter was recently circulated by the Oxford University Proctors and a part of it is reprinted here without permission for it's superb opening sentence in the section denoted: Behaviour after examinations
1.
No Junior Member of the University, other than a candidate presenting
himself or herself for examination, shall, at any time between the hours
of 12.15 and 1 p.m. or 5.15 and 6 p.m., or between fifteen minutes before
and thirty minutes after the scheduled time for the completion of a Public
Examination of the University for ten or more candidates, in the company
of one or more other persons either:
(i)
gather without the prior permission of the Proctors in a public
thoroughfare within 300 metres of any place where such an examination is
being, or has just been, held; or
(ii)
having gathered in a public thorougfare within one mile of any such place,
fail to disperse after having been requested to do so by one or more of
the Proctors, the Marshal, or their Constables.
For the purpose of this regulation, persons shall be regarded as having
gathered if they assemble, or form part of an assembly, in such a way as
to cause, or to be likely to cause, obstruction of a public
thoroughfare.
2.
(i)
No Junior Member of the University shall, in any place or thoroughfare to
which members of the general public have access within six miles of
Carfax, throw, pour, apply or use any thing or substance in a way which is
intended, or is likely, to cause injury to any person, or damage to, or
defacement or destruction of, any property.
And so it goes on. Haven't any of them heard of Plain English?
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