Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Furthermore, as a benefit of affiliation, student groups could receive the guidance of House faculty and members of the Senior Common Room; this affiliation could provide the student group with the advising that is currently lacking in the merely nominal association of faculty "advisors." Finally, groups would benefit by being granted preferences to the reservation of House facilities such as JCRs, dining halls, classrooms and private dining halls. This system of preferences in a student group's own House would do much to improve the confusing and complicated process of room reservation that currently exists...
...Pillow Palace," is filled with the pillow fighting and the giggling of a middle school pajama party. The pit is the brainchild of David A. Sivak '00, who constructed the area with a base of mattresses that contains, at present, 48 pillows. This fluffy pit submerges guests in the common room. In his suite with five other girls, his roommate Dan B. Baer '00 says it "has become the prime location for late night reading, cocktails with friends, and regular platonic coed slumber parties...
...hear the chants as soon as we leave the elevator. When we walk in, the scene is much more like a WCW wrestling match than a suite common room. Guys in all varieties of dress and blood alcohol levels line the walls and floor, chanting riotously. We have walked into the middle of the "Most Eligible Bachelorette Contest." The ladies dance, sing and are encouraged to strip. Dan Ratner had won the earlier bachelor competition, allegedly baring extensive flesh in the process. When the ladies competition ends (Melissa Coleman, whose "talent" and strategy had been to to cook the food...
...posed this question to a number of students and received a variety of responses. Some of the more common: copies of this newspaper, ID cards, a blue book, a portrait of the University president (or, alternatively, a self-portrait, labeled "University president"), the Users Guide to the Ad Board, a shuttle schedule, a lock of hair (shellacked or otherwise) and at least half a dozen objects alluding to how much Yale sucks...
...such a huge chunk of the medical industry that experts say it could lead to industry-wide reform. The President also received a pledge from the American Hospital Association to compile data on errors from its 5,000 member hospitals and implement a system to avoid the most common ones. But while this all may very well mean safer medical practices, it won't necessarily translate into any sort of health care legacy for the President. After all, who remembers when a mistake doesn't happen...