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...very pleasant for students? Now try to picture this: a talented, young, first-year student eaten alive by the hungry insects lurking in his bathroom...
Every day, as I wade my way across Lake Stoughton in my pre-chem, semi-conscious state, I am reminded by a horde of hungry, humming arthropods that the bathroom is essentially its very own biosphere--in which we poor humans are at the bottom of the food chain...
Perhaps I could solve it by closing the window. But if I did that, my bathroom, already quite humid, would become a hot-house, and whatever population that may be in there now would grow exponentially, until a vast swarm would gather and ooze out, eating everything in its path...
...those years Thomas got the campus Black Student Union to adopt guidelines for the behavior of men in the dormitory who had women guests on the weekends. The code included rules for dress, language and how to deal with the dicey bathroom issue. "He was acutely aware of these things at 21," says Clifford Hardwick, a friend who is now an attorney in Savannah, "when many of us weren't even thinking about them...
...nearly blew up the engine. She had to file a formal grievance just to get the pair of coveralls that she said were withheld from her. In the yard the men kept the ladies' room locked, and on the road they wouldn't stop to let her use a bathroom. "You wanted a man's job, you learn to pee like a man," she recalls a superior telling her. "She is not talking about being attacked in the office," says Faludi. "It's a slow, relentless accumulation of slights and insults that add up to the same thing -- the message...