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This fall, all students in Eliot, Kirkland and Dunster houses have more on their plates then just the regular class-picking and room-decorating decisions. Thanks to the new toilets installed in every bathroom, they must choose not only when to flush, but which way. The name? The dual-flush flushometer. The verdict? The jury, quite literally, is still sitting on it. The dual-flush flushometer is a leafy-green, antiseptic-coated toilet handle that controls the amount of water used in each flush. Specifically, students flush upwards for “1” and downwards...
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...remembered that the convenience of email is really no better than using my red phone (free!) or walking upstairs (a good way to avoid the “Sophomore Thirty”). Having wireless internet grants us the privilege of being able to check our email from the bathroom (among other conveniences), but its lapse is a blessing in disguise. It may help us realize that many things we take as necessities are actually luxuries. For now, I’m going to relax about the lack of wireless in my suite, and resort to some of those quaint traditions...
...final club of your choosing, and you guys have been welcomed into Mike’s Apartment over blazing fast T3 internet connections. But in two weeks, the white tears will turn clear. Your roommates will stop believing that your computer gets its best wireless reception in the bathroom, and you will realize that the girl you have a crush on won’t be able to visit your room—because the fifth floor of Canaday isn’t wheelchair accessible. We’ve been through three years of these trials and they don?...
...residential Houses found their toilet-draining options doubled when they returned to Cambridge this year: Eliot, Kirkland, and Dunster Houses installed dual-flush handles in an initiative to reduce water waste. A standard downward push uses a mere 1.6 gallons, a standard amount for a low-flow toilet. But bathroom-goers will be able to save even more water with an upward push on the handle—let’s call it “flush number one”—which is intended for that very purpose, and uses a mere 1.1 gallons of water...