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...poll asked: how porter and maid service compared; whether the system was a good form of student employment; and whether Funsters would like to have porters or maids clean their rooms next year...
Furthermore, if the maids and janitors are entitled to wages that will rise as the cost of living does, then the University can feel justified in raising room rents, now at an all-time high, in the same proportion. Maid service takes up a large part of the University's budget for upkeep of Houses...
...best alternative is to cut the maid force down to half, and have the remaining maids clean one set of rooms on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday one week, and Tuesday and Thursday the next, and the other set on Tuesday and Thursday the first week, and Monday, Wednesday, and Friday the next. This system would not increase the maids' work and would enable the University to save a good deal of its House upkeep budget. The plan might even permit a lowering of rents...
These are not suggested as desirable courses of action. Maid service is good and, if possible, should not be curtailed. But the higher cost of living is hitting students as well as employers. Until their contract expires, the maids should expect to meet higher living costs as best they...
...pretty well cut out for her. This season, in addition to eight Adeles in Fledermaus and three Musettas in Bohème, she will get a coveted role in the Met's new, English-language production of Mozart's Cosí Fan Tutte, as Despina the maid, who decoys her mistresses into affairs with two rich Albanians, masquerades as a quack physician, and generally moves the whole plot around...