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Currently, the College does very little in this regard. Aside from randomly mixing students in the Yard--which does have significant impact--it is difficult for first-years to meet each other in an intimate setting. Freshman Week is a blur of placement exams and Crimson Key ice cream socials--which, despite good intentions, are not good places to get to know someone...
...More than justproviding a tasty desert, fro-yo has affectedCurrier life in subtler ways. With names asstimulating as "Blissful Banana," "RadicalRaspberry" and "Just Peachy"--or "Simply Vanilla"for the mild at heart--the daily changing of theflavors adds extra flair to mealtimes...andbedtime. "It's better [than ice cream] forspreading on bodies," says one junior. "You know,milky smooth." And, since you can pick either ofthe two flavors or swirl them together, one isgiven the perfect freedom of always having achoice but never being forced to choose...
Have these individuals fallen prey to charminggimmicks and the appeal of efficiency, losingsight of the true gastronomic splendor of thedessert experience? What about the honest,rewarding work that goes into carving rock-solidice cream out of a bucket with a sticky scooper?If this seems hyperbolic, observe one student'ssuggestion that "Currier House should be renamed'Fro-Yo House,'" Casual joke or flagrant idolatry?The same student calls the process of servingfro-yo a "creative outlet; you get a chance tosculpt and relax at the end of your meal time."The simple act of trying to get a serpentine ropeof...
...chocolate frozen yogurt into hercoffee and observed that "it separated into twolayers. It makes you wonder what chemicals are init." Dan Grossman '95 refuses to believe thatfrozen yogurt contains no fat. And some peoplejust don't like the stuff; for thesetraditionalists, fortunately, there is still goodol' ice cream...
Dinner was a five-course affair--salad, soup, fillet of sea bass, lamb, and ice cream for dessert. Castro, who spoke in Spanish, talked ``nonstop, pausing only to eat and drink,'' according to Booth. He joked that he held an ``Olympic record'' in assassination plots against him, and chided Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev for being apologetic about communism. ``He appeared to be very well informed,'' says Attinger. ``He did not strike me as someone who was isolated...