Word: swipes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, limited access is unsafe. There have been several incidents in which students walking at night have noticed strange cars or individuals following them. Unfortunately, instead of simply being able to swipe their ID cards and enter safely into the nearest house, these students were forced to continue walking toward their own houses, the only ones to which they had access. This situation is especially threatening when individuals are alone at night. Although each house has a guard to supervise the area, the guards are only on duty for a limited time. Consequently, if an individual happens to walk...
Instead, each dining hall has card checkers--those usually forgotten men and women who swiftly grab our cards and, with one flick of the wrist, swipe them through the machine...
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...
...checkers at Annenberg are known for their vigilance, but Gerolimatos even leaves her post sometimes when she wants to grab lunch herself. "When I let the students check their own card, they swipe it too fast," she complains, "and my computer starts to go a little crazy." Gerolimatos cheerfully greets each individual student, without having to cheat and peek at the names on the card. Unfortunately, few checkers have adopted this level of enthusiasm...
...special. He radiates an air of niceness. When my mom met him, she said he looked like Robert Redford." She adds, "He's a man with a temper who has punched holes in walls and swept the top of an attorney's desk clean with one swipe of his arm. My friends thought it was an unhealthy situation, but I thought I was going to live happily ever after...