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...over-crowded years. The Jordans were designed to hold 25 people each, but either students were smaller then or had a lower standard of comfort: at least half of the "doubles" are used as singles, and the coops put up stiff resistance when the Quad housing offices try to assign any extra bodies to a Jordan...
...auction firms also assiduously cultivate known collectors in the hope that, alive or dead, they will some day assign their possessions to the market: auction executives are among the world's most diligent readers of obituary pages. William Doyle, the ebullient Boston-Irish owner of a seven-year-old Manhattan house, who expects to gross $15 million this fiscal year, flies in his own plane to reconnoiter rumored treasures. On a trip to Warrensburg, N.Y., he found a trunkful of letters autographed by five of the signers of the Declaration of Independence...
When they take the test, students list four or five colleges in China they would be willing to attend, and officials assign students who pass to specific institutions. "It's incredibly nerve-wracking--the prospects of not passing are so dismal," Wen says. "I had a roommate at P.U. who was just 20 and had an ulcer already...
...announced which of its members have volunteered this year to sit on CUE, which is composed of five Faculty Council members and five students from the Educational Resources Group (ERG). Since the Faculty Council members are elected in May of the preceding academic year, it would seem logical to assign faculty to the CUE at the same time. But Charles P. Whitlock, associate dean of the Faculty, who assigns Faculty Council members to subcommittees such as CUE, explains he doesn't ask Faculty Council members which subcommittees they would like to serve on until late September. He admits he might...
...Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) had to assign people to "some rooms that we thought could be crowded that had not been crowded" because the Class of '83 has about 50 more residents than the Class of '82, Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, said yesterday...