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...with being an Annenberg satellite, Adams recently shut its dining hall doors to first-years for the first time. Last week, the Adams House Committee (HoCo) unilaterally decided to extend its restrictions on Dartboard and his first-year friends for all lunch and dinner hours. The most restrictive dining hall policy in Adams’ history—Dartboard does not take the ban lightly. That the Adams HoCo was able to impose the ban without consulting affected first-years and non-Adamsians calls the policy into question...
First-years in the Union dorms—where Dartboard makes his home—and dorms on the far side of the Yard used to eat in Adams because of its convenient location. But with the new restriction, Dartboard and his marooned comrades will be forced to make the longer hike to Annenberg or other House dining halls...
Some Adamsians justify their new restriction by citing the now-mythical “Annenberg experience”—first-years mingling, engaging in profound discussions and leaving the meal as best friends. Yet Dartboard thinks that the real Annenberg experience for Union dorm residents—trekking through the cold only to sit with roommates—is not all that it’s cracked...
...revered anything but its own double entendres, which gives it a distinct creative advantage when dipping into the past. Honkin' on Bobo isn't burdened by respect or ambition, it's just a bunch of ragged blues covers (and one bluesy original) seemingly selected with the aid of a dartboard. (Aretha Franklin? Fleetwood Mac?) There are lots of potential quibbles - like, for instance, that Aerosmith playing roadhouse blues sounds a lot like ZZ Top playing rock 'n' roll - but other than a disastrously sincere take on Jesus Is on the Main Line, Honkin' on Bobo is full of clamorous charm...
...board, books and classes—thus rendering the quality of goods and services received for the most part irrelevant to the student. As long as Mom and Dad are the ones footing the bill, students have little incentive to care much about bad food and bad TFs.It reminds Dartboard of when he was six years old, reading story books about the real world: “There’s the nice police officer who keeps us safe. There’s the nice doctor, who takes care of us when we’re sick...