Word: respected
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Harvard student is looking to die in a fiery blaze, but this eleven-day inspection for items deemed to be fire hazards did nothing to enhance respect for the authority of the Freshmen Dean's Office (FDO). Nor did it provide any kind of long-term fix for the fire hazard problem...
...reasons that students don't respect the fire hazard regulations in the first place is because they don't fully understand the rationale behind banning certain items. If the problem was severe enough that Dean Nathans felt she needed to order a full-out confiscation, then she is probably able to provide a pretty good argument as to why students shouldn't be allowed to have these items in dorm rooms...
Maybe no type of discussion with students would have worked and the inspection still would have been necessary for our own good. But if they didn't want to tell us they were coming, they at least could have shown us enough respect to leave a note detailing what they took...
...respect for the class if people don't come every time...
...comics page is a kind of public utility," he said. "Like the phone company, it can be depended on 365 days a year. Also like the phone company, it doesn't get any respect...