Word: passes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard students are expected to attend class, do problem sets, write papers and even pass the QRR. Every student obediently fulfills these responsibilities, yet Harvard still does not trust students to swipe their own cards through those little machines in the dining halls...
...Kenneth Cole Reaction tote bag at the last minute. "Sometimes kids try to sneak in with no card," laments Lorena Vicente of Annenberg, on duty for breakfast, "and then we have to go after the kids." Checkers would normally get in trouble for allowing an un-swiped student to pass by, but Vicente says, "I usually don't like to [chase after a student], but we have to--especially if the bosses are around...
What is the procedure for a guilty student caught without a card? "If we catch a student trying to pass us, we just go to him and say 'Give me your number,'" says Vicente, while speedily grabbing cards with both hands. However, in the upperclass houses, the checkers find that students are more careful about bringing their cards to each meal. "All my students are very good here--I might even say excellent," says Mariya Gerolimatos of Eliot House. "If any try to get by me, I just call them back and get their number. Or I tell their friends...
...skill needed for this type of job is often unrecognized, and every checker has a different technique. The checker at Adams House stares straight down at the machine, holds out her hand, and waits for students to pass her their card. Interestingly enough, she never lets one student by without being swiped, and although her head is down, she is aware of everything around...
...This is a direct result of the failure of many UC reforms to pass the council last spring," said Charles A. Truesdell '99, a member of the council and the reform committee, in an e-mail...