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When a graduate student named John G. Kyriazis sits down to study in Stall C-6--his assigned carrel at the bottom of the Widener stacks--this is what he sees...
...minutes, the president tutored the dean on the finer points of the give-and-go and the nuances of the four-corner stall. The dean was enthralled, in his own understated...
...judge from the murmurs around the IAB when announcer Rob Storch tries to explain the new rule each game, the fans are decidedly unhappy. It's not just that the rule makes the ends of games less exciting by encouraging a stall offense. It's not just that it breaks the flow of the action. It's not just that it prevents those classic shuffling-big-guy-scrappy-little-guy confrontations. It's all those and more. Somehow the rule just isn't quite right...
Secret Santa surprises are not limited to dining halls, as Tim Chang '85 found out last Sunday morning. Chang discovered a trail of paper footsteps leading to his bathroom, where he found a Christmas-wrapped toilet stall containing a copy of Playboy magazine...
...same kind of bacon-and-cheese sandwich he enjoyed a week ago. He will, in the meantime, deposit a variety of dead and near dead things at the back door and stalk away for a nap. He may shred the antique silk draperies or decide that the shower stall is a Bauhaus litter pan. Whether the cat is friend or foe, many would agree with the prominent 18th century naturalist, the Count de Buffon. The cat, he wrote, "appears to have feelings only for himself, loves only conditionally and only enters into relations [with people] in order to abuse them...