http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20090829/NEWS03/908290338
The News Journal [Delaware]
The News Journal [Delaware]
29 August 2009
Newark (can) flush with returning UD students
City's population doubles today, but the water-pressure legend is a myth
By ROBIN BROWN
By Newark folklore, today's return of college kids tells locals one thing: You can't flush.
University of Delaware's annual return morphs the town of about 15,000 full-time residents into a college city nearing 35,000, with a proportional rise in plumbing use.
Newark (can) flush with returning UD students
City's population doubles today, but the water-pressure legend is a myth
By ROBIN BROWN
By Newark folklore, today's return of college kids tells locals one thing: You can't flush.
University of Delaware's annual return morphs the town of about 15,000 full-time residents into a college city nearing 35,000, with a proportional rise in plumbing use.
Rick Armitage, UD director of government relations, said he has heard locals couldn't flush the day students come back since he came as a student in 1969. [...]
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