They're concerned that, Aramark, the colleges' food service, has demanded immigration papers from its predominantly Hispanic dining hall staff. It's just a way, the students say, to intimidate the workers out of unionizing. But good news, a young man shouts to the crowd. It's heartening to know that in the era of the SUV and the IPO, a social conscience is alive and picketing on College Avenue. Here's my hypothesis.
People substitute among types of exercise in response to the volume of the music.
This thought comes to mind in the waning afternoon in the humming hive of Rains Center. Weights clang in the weight room. The women's basketball team huffs across Memorial Gym. Outside the aerobics room, football players huddle in post-season analysis, their eyes occasionally darting toward the dozens of women sweating in time to very loud rock n' roll under the gyrating instruction of aerobics guru Bill Banks, who doubles as a psychology professor. I'm worn out just watching.