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Many colleges do not bind their students to paying for 21 meals per week at campus cafeterias. Instead, students pay a certain amount of money at the beginning of the term, which is recorded on a wallet-sized card. These debit cards may be used in regular dining halls or in alternative college-operated eateries, such as delis and pizza parlors...
Harvard, of course, does not offer a debit-card system. According to an official at Harvard Dining Services, the primary reason for restricting students to dining halls is that the administration wants to promote a sense of community...
Since the 1930s, the chief instrument for building that community has been the house system. The administration believes that a debit-card system would encourage students to forego meals in their houses, thus weakening ties among house members and eroding the sense of community...
...boys made good use of their time, working up material and trying it out on whoever was making a bank shot nearby. Even far from the green felt, however, the tunes that Llanas and Neumann write stir memories of late nights, lost loves and lives edging over to the debit side. "I have a hard time with lyrics, so I keep it simple," Llanas says. "I write about boys and girls." Neumann, who splits the writing with Llanas, says, "All our lyrics are real positive. I like happy endings...
...fought World War II to save the possibilities of freedom, helped rebuild war-ravaged Europe as a bulwark of the West and launched the world's free-market economies on the greatest surge of growth ever. Even if the tragedy of Viet Nam is entered on the debit side, this record of achievement remains a challenge for their children to match...