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How much can be lifted from the Towers cafeteria without detection by the checkers, and what happens to someone if they gel caught? Certainly, almost everyone can cue tales of people packing gym bags, suitcases, anti even bowling cases full of cafeteria surplus and escaping undetected, while other people have gone before Judicial Hoard for sneaking a bagel. Those unfortunates are rumored to have been ordered to work it off in the cafeteria as checkers, who have to catch other cafeteria thieves. Checkers have the authority to stop someone leaving the cafeteria only if the person is carrying food out in the open They can ask the suspect to empty out of open handbags and other apparatus but cannot force him to do so. Cafeteria staff workers also have the authority to question a student if they catch him hiding something away for later, or to I ip off the checkers to do so.
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by Mark Murphy When I first moved into tlu dormitories that September day m 19761 figured I was in for four years of hell. I anticipated cramped j quarters, bad food and a real loser for a roommate. Boy. was I wrong, through the windows of the Towers. I could lean out and absorb all the beauty and culture of Oakland. I will .idmil it did take me some lime, about a full year, to see what I had i been missing What convinced me was a letter from tin Office of Residence I ife telling me the results ol a poll they took of inmates , .m death row in San Quentin prison. They asked the inmates to j describe the place that seemed like home, and nearly all. 93.7%. i described quarters uncannily resembling the Towers. I said to myself. People like that must know a lot about living. ' I thought lor a moment, and considered the alternatives to J dormitory life. Commuters must battle traffic, weather, and the PAT system ! lust to get to school m time to hear it has been cancelled. An apartment dweller must deal with monthly rent payments, j grizzled landlords, and heating bills that rise in proportion to the , (ailing lempaiure. The first plus I discovered about dorm life was acquiring a ’ roommate. Some students prefer to pick their roommates in ad ] vance. which is not nearly as much fun as sharing your most intimate bodily aberrations with a total stranger. What is more, your room | mate is always a great guy. Never will he be so inconsiderate as to make drug deals using the room phone. Never will the arsenal of weapons he keeps in the bolster go off accidentally when Ik lights a match And never, but never will he entertain Ins girlfriend in your room while you lie in feigned peaceful slumber |u$t three feel away. Instead, most roommates play a great deal of pinochle, (when not studying, of course), and take turns at leading group prayer. The space the University allots to each student is more than adequate. I will admit that I had to move my annual square dance t out of my room and into the hall but after the first month. I rarely knocked my roommates teeth while stretching to yawn. There was plenty of space for my three shirts and pair of jeans, and the slu lf space was more than sufficient tor any lour thin books I chose to . bring. The bathroom is perhaps the most fun place in the dorms Always clean and ready for use (after stepping over the pile of yuk in the doorway), the bathrooms feature steaming hot water. If you are small enough to crawl into a sink, you may use some of that water, but for most people, a lukewarm (more luke than warm) shower will have to do.
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