From: "Nicholas R. Schmittroth, III" 
Subject: Re: Seeing Eye Resolution
At 04:38 PM 10/19/96, you wrote:
>I agree, and I believe that if a group or organization meets the hotel's
conditions for hosting any given function no other organization has any
right to be a self declared middleman and say, in effect, "although you've
met the hotel's conditions you have to meet ours."  After all, they do not
own the hotel.  
Unless I'm mistaken, the complaint was based on the fact that the Seeing Eye
met using NFB resources to do so.  In that case, then, the resolution would
not only have been appropriate, but perhaps not enough so.
If I am mistaken on the issue, and it was held in other hotel areas, then i
still think that seeing eye was out of line to use the NFB convention for
its business, without consulting the NFB.  Let's face it, the dog users came
to an NFB convention and went to a Seeing Eye event, not to a Seeing Eye
convention for an NFB event.
I'm glad to see the issues being resolved.  Its not a good idea to hold a
grudge, but it is fair and just to stand up for ones rights.  The NFB has
some rights for the type of organization it is.  It is the largest of its
kind in the world.
Nick
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Nicholas R. Schmittroth, III 
President of the Utah Association of Blind Students
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~schmittr
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible
 is to go beyond them into the impossible." 
 - Clarke
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