Word: homework
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thirteen men are seated at the terminals this Saturday night. Most of them are doing their Applied Math 110 homework, a few are working on Physics. One student is smiling and chatting--he's the terminal monitor. "If I had my way," he says, "this place would be closed down on Saturday nights." He describes the Saturday night crowd as, "those who don't have dates, those who have nothing better...
Three students lean over the center table where Nat Howard is writing his AM 110 assignment. The talk turns to Star Trek, the computer game often played to relieve the drudgery of long homework assignments. "Star Trek is pure escape," says one envious thesis writer...
...room has become so crowded that a waiting list is started on the blackboard. Even the three old terminals at the back of the room, which Nat says are "so slow and noisy and made you spend all Saturday night doing your homework," are being used...
Yesterday, the team from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) held a three-hour meeting with University personnel managers, and "they had done their homework," Thomas O'Brien, director of the personnel administration office, said yesterday...
...easy. As a result, people are copying more now and enjoying it less. Nothing nowadays seems too trivial to be immortalized by that moving light-bar, memos of momentary importance, yesterday's newspaper clippings, smutty jokes for the office bulletin board, chain letters, recipes, offspring's homework. Some employers have even begun to allow their workers access to company copiers for personal use, a cheap, morale-building perquisite...