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NYTimes.com Article: Ivy Leaguers Get Bunk Bed Lesson
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chienta Wu)
Wed Jan 16 18:38:47 2002
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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:25:33 -0500
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From: Chienta Wu <jimmbswu@MIT.EDU>
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This article from NYTimes.com
has been sent to you by jimmbswu@mit.edu.
It is a good thing that at MIT, we don't hear of these things. Princeton must have cameras in the dorm rooms, else how could they have known?
-Jimmy
jimmbswu@mit.edu
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Ivy Leaguers Get Bunk Bed Lesson
January 16, 2002
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 4:30 p.m. ET
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) -- Contrary to what Isaac Newton had
to say about a body at rest tending to remain at rest, two
Princeton University students fell out of their bunk beds
recently, prompting an e-mail reminder to the Ivy Leaguers
to exercise more care while sleeping.
The interaction of mass, height and gravity caused one of
the two students who fell, a freshman, to break his wrist
in the September tumble.
The e-mail from the university suggested students make use
of safety rails that are available for the beds.
``We don't think it's silly when someone gets hurt,'' said
Adam Rockman, Princeton director of undergraduate housing.
``If we can do something to keep students from being hurt,
we will.''
Bunk beds are preferred by many dorm dwellers at Princeton
because they free up floor space.
There are no plans to get rid of the bunk beds. The reason
is simple mathematics: Dorm space divided by 4,500 students
equals bunk beds.
Ari Samsky, a junior who saw the December e-mail, said: ``I
felt like by the time you got to college you should be able
(to use a) bed.''
Some graduate students found the stories comical, wondering
whether students in California have bunk beds and what
happens during earthquakes.
David Michelson, 26, said the incidents clarified a
puzzling sign he noticed on campus last month. ``It said
something about bunk bed violence, like `Students Against
Bunk Bed Violence.' I couldn't tell whether it was a joke
or not,'' he said.
Peter Kingston, 21, a senior who has been in the top and
bottom bunk, suggested that even in the ivory tower, some
things make us equal. ``When you're sleeping, the playing
field is even,'' he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Princeton-Bunk-Beds.html?ex=1012223533&ei=1&en=e1b53e35a79b8cb9
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