Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would like to thank you for standing firm against the free-loving, drug-dealing hippies who wish to create universal keycard access in all the undergraduate Houses. I know you have taken taken heat from those who see no reason why a safe, sober Eliot House resident would become a menace to society upon entering, say, Mather. But I know why you have stood by your principles. I have walked through the halls of other Houses and seen their denizens-particularly that squinty-eyed guy in New Quincy--and thought to myself countless times Thank God those people...
...more thing. I have heard this scenario as a justification for your refusal to allow universal access: a Leverett House student is being chased across campus by a calculator-brandishing Kirkland premed whose chemistry lab report she just jumped dumped Powerade on. The Leverett student hurriedly swipes into her building and slams the door behind her, safe. A success story for keycard balkanization, right? Not quite. Is she really a Leverett resident? How do you know she didn't just transfer there because it was easier to steal bikes from the racks outside that particular House? Maybe letting...
...Without access to a regular sparring partner, Rakow trained primarily for the kata division of nationals--an individual competition where contestants perform kata, ancient Japanese exercises in which every move is predetermined. Rakow was eliminated by a freshman from San Francisco City College in the first round...
Featured near the edge of the park is "Porky" the Giant Pig, undoubtedly the star of the Topsfields fair. For a mere 50 cents, the curious can gain access to Porky's trailer and sneak a glimpse of one of New England's greatest treasures. Eight feet long in length and standing four feet high, this majestic beast is "still growing" and has the potential to provide "sausage for a thousand." With Porky now unable to stand under his own weight, one wonders how many more opportunities there will be to witness such a spectacle...
...hacker ran a program over the Internet that gave him root, or universal, access to my machine. This allowed the hacker to start a packet sniffer to gather people's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) passwords when they logged into the network," the resident said...