stanford students take it to the streets in protest

[undercutter2006]

Students steamed at Stanford
2/14/08

How do you get 6,000 college students whipped up into a lather?

Here's one way: Secretly install low-flow, eco-friendly shower heads in their dorms over the winter break.

The slow drip has triggered a deluge of complaints in bathrooms all over Stanford University. But a compromise may be ending the water wars. Officials have caved in and now promise to retrofit hundreds of showers with politically incorrect, high-pressure nozzles.

With a fury normally reserved for the University of California-Berkeley, students organized, complained in an e-mail petition, a letter-writing campaign, newspaper editorials, meetings with Stanford officials, and even staged demonstrations.

"It is like showering under a sink faucet," said Christian Tom, a junior whose pro-pressure petition in the West Lagunita dorm garnered 50 signatures in just one day.

"People really care about their showers," said reporter Nikhil Joshi, who wrote three stories on the brouhaha for the Stanford Daily. "They've got hard-charging students and they're pretty intellectually sophisticated, used to doing what they can to be heard."

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Pretty ironic that an anti low-pressure faucet movement is much bigger than an anti-war movement on that campus. They sure got their priorities straight.

[Adsos Letter]

1. There is no draft...

so the potential for personal suffering doesn't hit them the way an "inadequate" shower does...sad...but human nature, I fear...

[MasonJar]

2. Great! The students cannot put up with a shower that is environmentally

friendly. I am disappointed in the Stanford student body.

[Betsy Ross]

3. Link please n/t

[undercutter2006]

5. Stanford strikes shower compromise

http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/130729

STANFORD, Calif., Feb. 14 (UPI) -- California's Stanford University has agreed to retrofit showers with high-power heads after low-flow heads installed over winter break sparked an outcry.

The eco-friendly shower heads installed during the break, which reduced water flow from 2.5 gallons to 1.3 gallons a minute, led to a letter-writing campaign, an e-mail petition, newspaper editorials and multiple meetings with university officials requested by students who complained the low-flow shower heads were failing to give them the quick-clean they were accustomed to, the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News reported Thursday.

"It is like showering under a sink faucet," said Christian Tom, a junior who circulated a petition in his West Lagunita dorm that gathered 50 signatures in a single day. "Are we hunger striking? Of course not. But it's annoying."

Nik Kaestner of Stanford Housing said the school has agreed to outfit each bathroom with a hand-held shower head that increases water flow and can be raised to allow tall students to wash their hair with less difficulty.

"We're happy, and really appreciate that they listened to us," said Tom. "I took a shower and it was great."

[jaksavage]

4. So before we go to war...

we should require the population to install 100% low flow shower heads.
We might not ever fire a shot.
Instead the low flow heads are in charge of the govt...damn.