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After a student cleaned my suite’s bathroom early in the semester, we expected him to return a week later. Yet, he did not return. Instead, week after week, we stared at the yellow “dorm crew was here” slip on our mirror hoping that someone from dorm crew would soon appear to rescue our bathroom from its ever-so-ungracious disintegration into pure filth. Finally, after over a month without service, one roommate called the dorm crew office, and the next day a student came to clean. His service restored our bathroom?...

Author: By Jasmine J. Mahmoud, | Title: Cleaning Up Dorm Crew | 12/3/2002 | See Source »

...Dorm Crew should not be responding to student complaints after weeks of bathroom negligence. Students expect and need their bathrooms cleaned once a week for both consistency and hygiene. My Winthrop House handbook even indicates this expectation; it says, “private bathrooms are normally cleaned once a week by Dorm Crew. If your bathroom is not cleaned at this interval…please call Dorm Crew.” To ensure that students get their bathroom cleaned every week, the University should reduce Dorm Crew’s jurisdiction and increase the number of bathrooms cleaned by professional...

Author: By Jasmine J. Mahmoud, | Title: Cleaning Up Dorm Crew | 12/3/2002 | See Source »

Growing up in a big family in Las Cruces, N.M., taught her teamwork. "Six kids in a two-bathroom home," she says. "If you don't work in shifts and make trade-offs, you can't get out of the house in the morning." Her father remortgaged the house to send her to the University of Chicago. A part-time job at the university hospital began a love affair with medicine, and an IBM internship drew her to business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Myrtle Potter: COO of Genentech | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

Life in this Simerica has a dreamlike quality: the elements are familiar but scrambled. In a typical session you may walk into a stranger's home in the middle of the night, grab a shower in the bathroom (never mind that his wife is using the toilet), practice the piano for a while, then start making and selling pizzas out of your host's kitchen. In the trial beta version of the game, which currently has around 35,000 participants, Wright plays a Sim who is the proprietor of a lounge located in a submarine. It's called Das Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sim Nation | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...like wireless electronic books, which can be used for Web surfing, e-mailing, and for reading newspapers, books and periodicals. Tablet technology isn't there yet, but the day will come when you'll finally be able to download TIME on a tablet - and, yes, take it into the bathroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No More Pencils, No More Bics | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

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