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Many seniors, as well as juniors will not be here the next time the class is offered, said they feel a sense of injustice at not being guaranteed a seat in the class...
...good humor was only part of the deal. Leslie DiMaggio, 59, of Monterey, Calif., said she was insulted while checking in for her flight here. "Two airline people told me if they weren't able to get everyone on, I'd have to buy another seat." Charles Van Dyke, 46, a Southern Californian--who estimates his weight at 600 lbs., judging by a sumo wrestler roughly his size--nodded understandingly...
...Seat. (Moyer 13-9) at Oak. (Candiotti...
...those unlucky few that didn't get a syllabus. The pile, located by the door opposite the one from which I entered, was swarmed with determined sophomores before I could even reach it. At the next class (Phil. 168), I did not even get a seat. Craning my neck to hear over the crowd that had amassed by the door to the small Emerson classroom, I caught only bits of pieces of a lecture containing a number of references to "Kant" and "very difficult." As to securing a seat in Historical Studies B-61, "The Warren Court and The Pursuit...
Trying to get ahead for my next class (Gov. 1582) I arrived ten minutes early. There was one seat in the far corner of the room, which I quickly occupied. I was happy--until I saw the syllabus, which informed me that 50 percent of my grade would be based on a 30-page term paper. Had I known this fact from the start, I wouldn't have shopped the class. And now, since the path to the door had quickly filled up with bodies, the only way out involved causing a substantial ruckus...