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...contradictory behavior. This Christmas, high-end stores and discount outlets are having the best season: stores in the middle are struggling. It seems that most consumers are engaged in a constant, personalized cost-benefit analysis. If they feel they got a good enough bargain at the Price Club on toilet paper or dog food, they allow themselves the Starbucks confection that costs four times as much as a regular cup of coffee...
...other hand, maybe these reflexes aren't so surprising. Everyone has heard stories of the Depression-era parents or grandparents who were still recycling string and splitting two-ply toilet paper long after their portfolios had reached seven figures. There is something about even a glimpse of poverty, much less the experience of it, that leaves scars, of humiliation and terror and resolve not ever to live there again. In a restless age, when the days are long and dense and full of surprises, when industries change overnight, it's little wonder that it's harder to dream, easier...
...long as we're on the subject of non-political issues that matter to everyone, let me bring one up that somehow did not make it onto this year's laundry lists of proposed quality-of-life improvements: two-ply toilet paper. Yes, that's right, if Stewart and Cohen want to spend their time fighting for things that matter to all students, things that are "non-political" and are within the domain of realistic council intervention, toilet paper is the place to start. Considering that we live in our dorms eight months of the year, our bathrooms should more...
...toilet paper is the kind of thing that makes a bigger difference than it seems. First you improve the quality of bathroom life, and the next thing you know, students' outlook on the whole Harvard experience softens up. I am not saying single-ply should no longer be available. If you are concerned about saying paper, or for some reason like that sandpaper-feel (and I don't want to know why), stay with Scott Surplus. But if Harvard claims to care about us, two-ply must be available. You don't think Dean of Students Harry R. Lewis...
...from the first to address the two-ply issue. Council candidates had raised the toilet paper issue repeatedly before this year, and a simple Web search reveals that this is a concern of college students nationwide. A pair of candidates for MIT's student government in 1993 made two-ply one of their major issues. Toilet paper was the first platform plank of a pair of candidates for Penn State's student council earlier this year (plank No. 2 was the creation of a "nap lounge"). And American University's online newspaper, The Eagle's Web, last year...