All I can say is PHEW- Soap at Yale

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<p><a href=“http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/01/27/national/a185315S41.DTL[/url]”>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/01/27/national/a185315S41.DTL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>(01-27) 18:53 PST New Haven, Conn. (AP) –</p>

<p>It took a decade of student lobbying, but Yale University appears ready to break with tradition and supply soap for dormitory bathrooms on one of the oldest campuses in America.</p>

<p>At a school where students have demanded and won financial aid reform and divestment from oppressive countries, calls for liquid soap dispensers went unanswered for years. Even after Yale agreed to stock two-ply toilet paper in the mid-1990s, administrators wouldn’t budge on the soap issue.</p>

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<p>I was almost going to accuse you of posting the most uninteresting topic in the history of CC, but as I read the article (patience required!) it got more… and MORE… and MORE interesting!!! </p>

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<p>From a Harvard alum (tongue-in-cheek for the humor-challenged):</p>

<p>Could Yalies qualify as “the great unwashed?”</p>

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<p>“I’m a big supporter of soap”??? </p>

<p>LOL – I have a new favorite quote.</p>

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<p>wwow… what kind of school denies soap to it’s students… tradition? haha! Why not take it to an extreme and make it a rich white male schoo only? Tradition like that is BS.</p>

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<p>To be fair, we didn’t have soap at my school. You were expected to bring your own (large public university).</p>

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<p>THis was soap dispensors in public bathrooms, I don’t know about you, but the wshing of the hands after going potty is kind of important</p>

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<p>Unfortunately, that’s also what I meant. You were expected to lug your soap with you (liquid or bar of hand soap).</p>

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<p>I heard that the President of Yale said: “I am washing my hands of this whole affair.”</p>

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<p>concerneddad, </p>

<p>LOLOL!!</p>

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<p>PHEW - Soap at Yale,</p>

<p>as opposed to</p>

<p>PEW - No soap at Yale</p>