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When Jacob A. Rubin '03 returned to his room in Matthews Hall around 3:30 a.m. the morning of Sunday, Oct. 3, he left his Yankees cap on his desk in his suite's common room. The next morning, his roommate Geoffrey M. Stevens '03 woke up around 11 a.m. He checked his e-mail and then went to the bathroom. The bathrooms in Matthews don't have any paper towels, just an ineffectual hand-dryer, so Stevens dried his hands with toilet paper. When he threw the wad of toilet paper in the garbage can, he saw it land...
...Rubin was awake and using his laptop computer at his desk when Stevens returned to the common room and asked Rubin if his hat was in the bathroom garbage. As Matthew D. Gibson '03, the third roommate, remembers, "Jake was like, 'No, it's right on my desk.'" But when Rubin checked his desk, he saw his hat wasn't where he left it. "We thought it was a prank," Gibson says. Rubin recalls: "I was very perplexed, to say the least, because at that time we hadn't realized anything else was stolen. We thought someone had broken...
...After sitting at a desk all year, it's great to go back home and have someone tell you to shovel this pile here or that pile there," Springer said. "It's nice just not to have to think...
...been involved in a "verbal dispute." After issuing Simpson a brochure on domestic violence, as required by law in such situations, the policemen asked him to pose for a picture. The photo op was not viewed kindly at headquarters, and the two cops have been temporarily reassigned to desk duty. That should give them ample time to design what is certain to be two of the department's more noteworthy Christmas cards this year...
...have a desk...