Yale University Dorms have soap now.
For the first time in Yale’s history.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060128/D8FDEDR80.html
COMES THE REVOLUTION!
The Filthy Rich are all agog tonight.
Huh, come to think of it… I don’t think my alma mater had soap in the bathrooms in the dorms either. Odd.
This was the reason I didn’t go to Yale.
You were scared they were going to introduce soap midway through?
Isn’t this what caused the fall of Rome?
Neither CU Boulder or U of Iowa had soap in the dorm bathrooms. I realize that was waaaaay back in the '80’s, but still.
[old coot]
What a bunch of babies! In my day–we MADE the damned soap. You work up a sweat mixing that lye and ash and all…kids today! Spoiled, that’s what they are!
[/old coot]
Remind me never to shake the hand of a Yale graduate, or dropout.
Those Yalies.
Spoiled brats.
I spent a month living in a Dorm at Yale one summer in a high school program.
There wasn’t any soap. They actually told us to pack some.
There was, however, toilet paper.
When I got to my four-year college I discovered that, every morning, the guys in our dorm stole the toilet paper. And just carried the rolls to the can when THEY needed them.
This isn’t as strange as it sounds. I’m at RPI now, and my first two years I was in a suite arrangment, where two doubles shared a bathroom. No soap was provided for us there. But now I have a single with a floor bath, within the same dorm, and there’s a soap dispenser. So I’d say that primarily it depends on the arrangements of the rooms.
The suites didn’t have soap? Huh. I geuss it almost makes sense. You weren’t required to clean your suite b-rooms, were you?
I was on a regular dorm and we had soap, toilet paper, and paper towels a plenty. Though I think my half of the floor was originally intended to be a women’s section, since our bathroom had no urunals one more stall than the bathrooms of the other men’s floors.
Oh, and I meant to add this:
You know, I bet Yale didn’t originally even ahve showers. It was tradition when it was founded not to have a shower, so I guess you should take them away! Oh, and I bet women weren’t originally allowed to attend. Kick them all out, all in the name of tradition. :rolleyes:
Good heavens, no. They wouldn’t want to expose the students to anything resembling adult responsibilities.
The lack of soap, became an issue, because they discourage alcohol consumption now.
They didn’t get pressed to supply soap in the 60’s and 70’s because the students got their daily alcohol and drug intake. Pyramid Power provided the students that did shave with an ever sharpened razor. They could sleep or meditate under the pyramid to balance their Chi and heal themselves. Pee Therapy was another new age cure around at the time. I think that little movement had more to do with recycling the mushrooms and other psychedelics though. They thought it made a good enough hand wash or mouthwash, that soap wasn’t needed at the time, and a stoned person found peeing on their hands was easy enough anyhow.
In the 80’s and early 90’s they could at least still drink and party to some extent without the school, being too intrusive. The students at this period still found the soap wasn’t needed, since a drunk student still didn’t care if there was soap. The non drinkers were too busy playing computer games or D&D dice games. The computer gamers stayed in their rooms never leaving to use a bathroom. The D&D people ran around the school mostly in the tunnels, and the characters they played would have never used soap, so they didn’t either.
In the last ten years the policies against any alcohol consumption, has led to the students finding the deficiencies of their school and demanding corrections. Sober people demand improvements over the years. A drunk forgets what’s wrong in a short time and doesn’t have the attention span to pursue corrections to institutional inadequacies. That is why banning student drinking has at last required the college to supply soap for students.
We’re talking about a liquid soap dispenser for hand washing, right? Like in the certified clean restrooms at the Sinclair Oil station of my youth.
It is my recollection that during the halcyon days of the Kennedy Administration there was a sink in almost every dorm room where you kept your own personal bar of soap. When you went to the shower you took your personal bar of soap with you, often in its own little plastic box. You took a towel, too.
You could piss in the in-room sink but good manners required that you rinse it out. Pissing in the shower room sinks was frowned on. I suspect this was true even at Yale.
Don’t det me started on soap etiquette in open bay barracks.
Oh, but you better belive that we’ve got liquid soap now, baby! No, it’s even better: we have the auto-foaming soap dispensers. Should I post photos?
Wusses. When I was there we had one-ply and liked it, dammit!
Ours neither. Not in the dorms. They did however allow you to purchase soap with an interesting barter-replacing scrip they had on my campus called money.
I guess they don’t have any money in New Haven. Hmm. I’ve been to New Haven. And they really don’t. (Have you heard Yale’s new motto – “No undergraduates shot by townies in almost 11 years!”)
–Cliffy