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There came Brenda Fatigue, Regius Professor of Office Fashion, Ed Flue, Associate Professor of Logging: Burnside Marconi, Instructor in Televiewing: Syrup Concoct Poet-in-Residence: Benjamin Manila, Chairman of the Stationary Department: G. Root Garbage, Counselor in Veneral Diseases;...Heinz Pogrom, Horst Wessel Professor of German Philology: Gladys Bung, Dietary Tactician; Fifi Galleon, instructor in French Jobs; Catherine Thigh, Director of Sexual Services, Nicholas Syph, Bureaucracy Professor Emeritus...
...quoted as suggesting that "the situation would resolve itself once workers left the building and students became 'sensitized' and were more careful about smoking and fireplace smoke." It is hard to attribute alarms between four and six a.m. to the workmen or to someone forgetting to open his flue. How many times must we be dragged out of bed before we become "sensitized...
...pieces. Somehow, Walsh's fire alarms, installed in mid-summer, have managed to be triggered by just about anything--footsteps, sneezes, running water, sunrise. The one thing these smoke alarms don't seem sensitive to, oddly enough, is fire. One student tells of accidentally failing to open his fireplace flue, seeing his room fill up with smoke, and never hearing a peep out of his detector...
...heaters stand free with no flue, although ventilation through an open door or window is recommended. They produce hardly any odor, although new out-of-the-box heaters generate a slight smell of oil and paint that their makers claim disappears after the first tankful of fuel is used up. All models have automatic shutoff devices to guard against fire if they are jarred or tipped over...
...effect relationship." The pamphlet features a series of questions. For example, "Are cigarettes with low 'tar' and nicotine 'safer' for smokers?" The answer begins, "Cigarettes have never been proven to be unsafe," and "What about the alleged 'right' to breathe smoke-free air?" As this Tom Paine of flue-cured leaf points out, "the issue really involve[s] personal freedom...