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Anyone who ever slid a tray down a school cafeteria line remembers them well: the lunch ladies. They may be warmhearted, but their food is not always so hot. The Roy Rogers hamburger chain thought it would be a good idea to conjure up that memory with commercials featuring lunch ladies who dish up dismal casseroles to the tune of See You in September. The ads remind students to take advantage of their free time to snack on the company's fast food...
Perhaps one of the most time-honored traditions is the summer reading list, and my prep school was probably the number one upholder of this tradition. My school was determined, no matter what, to keep the summer reading list as strong an institution as homeroom and lousy cafeteria lunches...
...Enforce existing anti-smoking regulations at Harvard. Smoking in common areas of dormitories, houses and other campus buildings is prohibited by Massachusetts law, Cambridge ordinance and Harvard regulation. Yet it happens all the time. Non-smokers should not be subjected to second-hand smoke drifting across a cafeteria or lingering in a hallway or entryway...
Jews too have found that in a climate that seems to tolerate intolerance, incidents of harassment are on the rise. A Trinity University fraternity in San Antonio was placed on probation after requiring a Jewish pledge to dress in a Nazi uniform and parade through the campus cafeteria. Jewish women are derided as "Jewish-American princesses." At Cornell and elsewhere, students wear T shirts reading SLAP-A-JAP! and BACK OFF BITCH, I'M A JAP-BUSTER! "Anti-Semitism masked as sexism is more socially acceptable," says Rabbi Laura Geller, director of the Hillel Jewish Center at the University...
...constant racial friction on student life is profound. Nonwhite students suffer tremendous pressure to outperform their classmates just to beat the stereotype. Some drop out rather than battle on; others move to schools they consider more supportive. Those who decide to remain often segregate themselves at single-race cafeteria tables or cultural centers, fueling complaints of cliquishness and militancy. "I can't believe they would accuse us of being reverse racists," says Brown undergraduate Martina Johnson. "For 45 minutes out of the day I want to be comfortable. I want to not need to have my guard...