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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...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Bigger Isn't Better | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Bigger Isn't Better | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Bigger Isn't Better | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Trimming Around the Edges | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: First-Years: Don't Ruin Our House | 3/19/1991 | See Source »

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