Word: copier
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...upcoming lottery should be determined by the number of students who will use their resources, and by the importance of their being in the Yard. As the Foundation’s (and the women’s center’s) only location-sensitive resource is its copier, I suggest that a common copier be made available in Thayer basement, and that the Foundation and any new women’s center be subject to the same scrutiny as any other club aspiring to own Yard space.The reason this isn’t happening is because having a Foundation...
...appreciation of all things modern. In Gail Jones' seductive new novel, his captive audience is young Australian Alice Black, who is researching her book, The Poetics of Modernity. And over the course of Dreams of Speaking (Vintage; 214 pages), a succession of machines are summoned, from the Xerox copier to the neon tube, to glow in the novel's velvety darkness. Here the things which bring people together also keep them apart. "I wanted to read certain omnipresent phenomena through this ambivalence," says Jones via e-mail. "The telephone for example is often represented as an estranging and distancing mechanism...
...plan was to make the IOP a home for all politically related groups on this campus. We would give them meeting space in our building, access to the copier, the code to the student office, and the freedom to walk through the IOP’s halls with a sense of ownership, a real sense of belonging. This basic first step would recast the IOP as the hub of a campus-wide political community—a central resource through which student groups could carry out their distinct missions. And before long, the IOP would become a true center...
...women’s centers at other schools to thrive without their own buildings. At Duke, for instance, a residence hall holds a 2,000-square-foot, seven-room women’s center, which offers a kitchen, a work area with computers, a reading room, two lounges, a copier and fax machine, and a TV, VCR, and DVD player. Duke’s center has five professional staff members, and its website boasts that “Our meeting spaces are HEAVILY used throughout the year...
...about 30 days behind schedule in our fund raising . . ." The note looked as if it had been handwritten, yet if Hawkins had personally scribbled all 40,000 letters that went out, terminal writer's cramp would have set in. In fact, the note was run through a high-tech copier that duplicates the script...