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Once you are authenticated by the system, the swipe machine emits a loud sound--one beep for first-years and a series of beeps for upper-class students...
According to Cuppett, the long beep sequence for upper-class students was implemented to allow dining hall checkers to see the students' house affiliations on-screen so that students and dining hall staff could get to know one another...
...Traviata takes the hackneyed idea, "you can't judge a book by its cover," and turns it into something breathtakingly beautiful. The story centers around Violetta Valery, a French "courtesan"--basically an upper-class prostitute who provides parties and other entertainments for the members of the upper middle class--who, despite her shallow and flamboyant lifestyle, is caring and gentle at heart. Although she is very weak due to a severe case of tuberculosis, Violetta persists in throwing boisterous fetes that only make her worse, and the opera opens in the midst of one of these late-night revels...
Opening garbage bags taken from first-year dorms, libraries, upper-class houses and several administration buildings, the committee separated the trash into three categories: cardboard, paper and containers...
Shapiro, now a resident of Kirkland House, also said she was dismayed that she was unable to control the temperature levels of her room in Straus. The heaters in student rooms in many of the upper-class Houses have functional dials with which the students can regulate their heat, while most of the freshman dorms...