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Finally, the College should reform the celebrations surrounding Commencement to gear them toward families of modest means. The senior clambake ("Lobster or prime rib, clams, corn soft drinks, beer and more!" my schedule announces,) costs $25 per plate. For the nuclear family of two parents, two children and a pair of grandparents, this meal adds another $150 to the already substantial cost of Commencement...
...Perhaps lobster, prime rib, clams and beer actually cost this much. If so, then such a menu should not be part of Senior Week activities. A less extravagant meal--one within the budget of poorer familes--would be a far more democratic way to celebrate...
...Lobster Dinners...
...happy with the program. It's given us the flexibility to offer more items to our students that you can't afford with the just regular program," says Patricia K. Bedrosian, associate director of dining services. For example, she says, B.U. was able to offer students a lobster dinner one night...
Still, there is a grudging consensus that the microwave prepares certain foods, like fresh vegetables, very well indeed. Roger Berkowitz, co-owner of the highly regarded Legal Sea Foods restaurants in the Boston area, has become a convert to microwaving shrimp and lobsters at home, though he warns that "you have about ten seconds to leave the room, or you see their claws hit the oven window." Both microwave-oven size and New England tradition militate against applying this technique in his restaurants. As Berkowitz puts it, "How do you tell someone, 'I just nuked your lobster...