Word: 29g
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Edward F. Mulkerin III's dissent to the staff editorial on 29G dining restrictions ("Residents of 29 Garden St. Could Use the Fresh Air," Feb. 3, 1994) is factually inaccurate and degrading to residents of 29G...
Mulkerin states, "It's common knowledge there that if you utter 'Yard' to the checkers at Currier, you can have all the monk fish you want without fear of reprisal." Just as Jews couldn't hide their identity in Nazi Germany by stating, "I am Christian," 29G residents can't hide our identities from a checker who has known us as 29G residents all year long and who has a list of all dormitory residents...
...that if a Yardling walks to the Quad for her meals, she is crazy, but if a 29G resident walks to the Yard, "the exercise will make the food taste all the better...
...residents of the house in question, not just those who got thrown head-first into the shallow end of the freshman housing pool. Consider the fact that a first-year from Weld could eat at all of the three Quad houses with all of her friends, while a 29G resident has to eat at a randomly assigned house with randomly assigned people. And they say lightning never strikes twice...
...first place. It's common knowledge there that if you utter "Yard" to the checkers at Currier, you can have all the monk fish you want without fear of reprisal. Even the Currier dining hall manager, Bob Liandro, admits that the policy is rarely enforced. According to one 29G resident, "People still eat pretty much where they want...