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POINT 2. Change. Not the earth-shaking kind advocated by our crusading campus revolutionaries, but the loose kind which is almost nowhere to be found in the Widener-Pusey-Lamont system. Where on earth is one supposed to get it? Sure, there are change machines over by the Xerox machines. But they only take $1 bills...
Suppose--hypothetically, of course--that you are trying to photocopy a periodical in Lamont, but that the only cash you have is a $5 dollar bill. If I were ever in such a situation, it might occur to me to try to get change from the folks over in Gov Docs, right down the stairs. Just to see what would happen, I stopped by Gov Docs the other day to see if they could break a five...
Adding to the problem, of course, is that the three libraries have different hours. Widener is open until 9:45 on weeknights. Lamont is open until one. Even assuming that a physical route of access to the photo desk existed, it would only be possible to use it during certain hours...
...budget presented last week by Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont -- inevitably dubbed Stormin' Norman by the press -- calls for an immediate cut in the poll tax of $250 a person, an average of 36%. That is to be offset by an increase in the value-added tax, a kind of super sales tax, from 15% to 17.5%. Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine later announced that the poll tax would be scrapped entirely by 1993, but talked only vaguely about what might replace...
...Hilles. How much schmoozing--and how little studying--do Eliot types do at Lamont? With the College's best and most comfortable library right next door, Currierites can get their work done efficiently, freeing up time for extracurricular activities...