Word: floater
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...debating whose turn it is to empty the trash, and having to trade rooms each time one of them wants to spend the night alone with a visitor. What happens when both of them want an overnight visitor on the same night?...Have you heard the stories about the "floater"? Don't end up as the person who tells one. Room next door to your friend in the Quad's genuine singles, and stay friends. Only the Quad houses let rising sophomores choose their rooms...
...sided Bruces are operated from an underwater platform with a huge, cranelike arm. Hydraulically powered and manipulated by the arm, Bruce is agile enough to sink a ship, which he does. All-Around Bruce, known as the "free-floater," is controlled by a towing boat with a 300-ft. pneumatic line. That Bruce, says Creator Mattey, "has unlimited running room, like a person on water skis being pulled on the open...
...smoked dope less often during his junior year, but did not stop completely. He managed to ditch the floater, and picked up two other roommates. One of them, a rich preppie, was perhaps the most ostentatious son-of-a-bitch he had ever met. But the preppie owned a lot of expensive stereo equipment, and was free with his dope, so it was easy to put up with his arrogant manner...
Sometime in the spring of his sophomore year, he noticed a pattern had developed. It was no longer just the occasional B+ or the floater that he got stuck with. Of course, he did not get along well with his senior tutor; ever since he moved in, the tutor had gone out of his way to have an influence over his life. That was what Harvard was all about--who could wield the most amount of influence over others. And students had few opportunities to control professors or administrators. The system was just unfair...
...Floater-A light sailplane well suited to weak lift conditions often found in the East...