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...struck by the limitations of the Dowling Committee proposal; and we continue to be outraged by the lack of formal student opinion in most University decisions--from investment policy to toilet paper. But we realize that while marching in the streets to protest Harvard's irresponsible stance on its South-Africa-related investments is effective in conveying student opinion, demonstrations are unlikely to provide a pass/fail option in the Core or to bring about calendar reform. These types of decisions will always be made bureaucratically, and students must become as influential as possible within these channels as well as outside...
...John, high-school dropout and expert on stock-boying. John, however, was reluctant to share his expertise, and I was forced to teach myself tricks such as keeping my thumb out of the way of the razor blade carton opener and making sure that all the cans of toilet bowl disinfectant had their labels facing the customers...
...more durable educational reforms won by the college generation of the 1960s was the coeducational dormitory-and that inevitable corollary, unisex bathrooms. At the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, for instance, some two-thirds of the 11,000 students in university housing share toilet facilities with members of the opposite sex. Now, however, the Old Morality seems to be making a comeback. Citing complaints from parents, state plumbing codes that seem to require separate facilities and changing attitudes among undergraduates, the university has announced that the showers will be resegregated. "With new student populations come new moralities," says Director...
...room" in the main cell-block will contain a seatless toilet, a basin, bed and two shelves. Prisoners may decorate their rooms with bedspreads, curtains, wooden toilet covers, bedside tables and plants. Each floor has a recreation room with a television set, and if Harris becomes a star prisoner, she may some day watch TV and cook in her own cellblock. There is a school on the premises, though many of the courses may not interest a former headmistress: remedial English, auto repair, IBM keypunching, hairdressing. Bedford Hills is not an oppressively grim place to serve a sentence...
When Brenda Sanchez of Fremont, Calif., came home from a local grocery store last summer, her son noticed a package of Soft 'n' Pretty toilet tissue with a ticket for a promotional game called Scott Cash. As he scraped away the silver coating over a tic-tac-toe grid, he discovered that he had won $1,000. The elated Sanchez family promptly sent the ticket, as stipulated, to Scott Paper Co. in Chester, Pa., by registered mail. After a month went by without a word from Scott, Martin Sanchez called the firm only to be told that someone...