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...Union was a true core of college life, as many alumni now confirm. “I don’t remember wanting for social space,” says Thomas C. Frietzche ’67, though he does recall one raucous bachelor party thrown in the Kirkland Basement for want of a better location. A more recent loss for freshman was the replacement of the Crimson Sports Grille with Redline in 2002. Laurence P. Noonan ’03 remembers spending countless nights at the Grille, which was known for freshmen and cheap beer...
...Iran-contra scandal, Reagan brought in Howard Baker and then Ken Duberstein as chiefs of staff, Frank Carlucci and then Colin Powell as National Security Advisers (Powell told Reagan, in no uncertain terms, that Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, who was running an illegal war from the White House basement, had to go). President Bush confronts nothing so threatening to his Administration as Iran-contra. But it's probably time to renovate the West Wing staff under new leadership. And there aren't three people in the Pentagon who can understand why Donald Rumsfeld is still Secretary of Defense after presiding...
...doesn’t try to be a journalist. She invents annual dinners where professors and freshmen listen to a glee club while Haitians serve chicken for a $22 flat wage. There is the Bus Stop, a restaurant that serves the same as Cafe Algiers but is embellished with basement-shaking poetry performances...
...Eliot’s recent spate of fire alarms has been somewhat unusual—of the three total alarms of this semester, two occurred within a 30-hour period. The cause of the problem, however, was also unusual and has already been addressed. (A smoke detector in a basement bakery was tripped by steam and water that had been generated by recent maintenance work done on a nearby wall.) We’re pleased that maintenance officials are taking steps to correct this issue, and we encourage the University to do whatever it can to similarly reduce the number...
...general, however, fire alarms on campus are not activated by such resolvable problems; rather, they’re caused by a myriad of random events, such as a bag of popcorn that burned in a microwave, an accumulation of dust in a basement, or other such unpredictable circumstances. Fire detection systems aren’t human beings, and they will react to these types of occurrences as they would to a real fire hazard. Realistically, the sensitivity of fire alarms cannot be reduced without somehow compromising student safety, which is, of course, the overriding concern...