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...Lamont is the best library for discreet make-out sessions because it’s “so boring and dry and miserable, that you have to do something to make it interesting.” Lamont’s studious atmosphere means that prospective neckers can even hide in plain sight. Campus sex blogger Lena Chen ’09 says that she once smooched with a gay friend on the third floor of Lamont without anyone noticing. But campus kissing is hardly confined to the libraries. Mellor says that “little study rooms, tunnels...
...imagine being 26, newly married, returned from a honeymoon and suddenly living under the same roof as your hubby's extended family - eight, all told, including a peppy sister-in-law who, you soon discover, might be sleeping with her slobbering, mentally impaired teenage brother. Do you run or hide? If you're Noriko Shito (née Hashimoto), the birdbrained protagonist of Asa Nonami's trippy murder mystery Now You're One of Us, you do neither. You shut your mouth, smile and stay...
...named Che whose mom accidentally blows herself up making bombs for a Weathermen-style group. (The specter of Weatherwoman Kathy Boudin haunts all these books.) A fellow traveler named Dial (short for dialectic, ugh) scoops Che up and flees with him to Australia, where she and Che hide out with a band of smelly rural hippies. There is nobody who is not a drag in this book: the cops; the angry, self-righteous American radicals who fight the cops; even the listless Australian hippies, though they are (I think) supposed to be the sympathetic ones. You're left feeling that...
...nothing to directly promote student health and safety. The policies’ numerous references to the drinking age and the extensive logistical constraints that it puts on party registration and advertising suggest that the administration is more concerned with following the letter of the law and covering its bureaucratic hide than about protecting the lives and safety of students, which should be the prime focus of any alcohol policy. One aspect of the policy that could potentially promote safety is the requirement that tutors check in on registered parties at least once. While this provision could ensure that students...
...beauty parlor's proprietress is carrying on a hopeless affair with a married man. One of her assistants, engaged to be married, is resorting to desperate measures to hide the fact that she is not a virgin from her intended and his conservative family. Another assistant is rather surprised to discover that she is leaning toward lesbianism. One customer, coming to grips with menopause, is trying, rather frantically, to salvage what's left of her rather disappointing life by becoming an actress. The spinster seamstress who lives next door is flirting with a client, but her desire is deterred...