Word: rooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...warrant the attention of the busy advisers, tutors or deans. Then maybe Harvard needs more people in those kinds of roles. Well, you might argue, there are plenty of resources available at Harvard to deal with such cases. But the Bureau of Study Counsel, UHS and student groups like Room 13 are catch-all safety nets that deal with problems after the fact; a lot of students in difficult situations don't have the presence of mind to pick up a directory and make a phone call...
...doubt prompted conjectures amongst Ride's under-age audience at homes across America concerning fluid volume weightlessness. But Ride explained the mechanics well enough that it became evident, even to us minors, that women couldn't use the standard apparatus. But that's all the mothership offered. No ladies room; zero gravity. Not known for cliffhangers, "3-2-1 CONTACT" suddenly had its target demographic male and female, on the edge of our seats...
...hold it for the whole trip? Resort to ziplock? But wait, what was that behind the men's contraption, a white plastic post right next to it but beyond the frame of vision? That was the space-age ladies' room, invented in lieu of ziplocks and because Ride was worth...
...What's with getting so excited about mayoral and gubernatorial races that have never included female candidates? And above all, if we've got more than half of the undergraduate degrees under our belts and will soon claim an overwhelming majority of the professional ones, what's the ladies room in that little domed building on Capitol Hill doing so empty...
Then we get more ambitious. "Let's build a room of our own," we say. And the more literary among us hold a rally insisting that it have a view...