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For students at New York College, tuition keeps creeping up, which means we have to take on e president, Phillip Allington, ns a 45 million home in the Hamptons, lives rent-free in a luxury penthouse at the top of Fischer Hall And his son drives around in a convertible Mercedes and is a co-owner of the nightclub Epiphany (try thestinks in Greenwich Village and we here at the Express say its na on how your tuition dollars ant lifestyle Our first report is called "Who Pays for Mrs Allington’s Birds?," a hard-hitting exposé on the exotic birds belonging to the wife of our college president, and how e Express,
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Lisa cries the whole way back to our office
"I’ton Square Park, dodging black squirrels, tourists, and young nannies pushing baby strollers "I don’t knohat’s wrong with ree with them Those RAs are such rotten shits They deserve to be kicked out I just c-can’t stop crying Like I can’t see"
"Yeah," I say "About that"
I have a hand on her arh the crowds--it’s another beautiful warm fall day, and the park is packed--since I’h her tears No one pays any attention to crazy Asian girls walking through the park crying because there are so s to look at, such as the barefoot guitar players, overturned-plastic-can drus
"Is there any chance you could be pregnant?" I ask
Lisa stops walking in the et without walking directly into the huge fountain, the jets of which are shooting twenty feet into the air
"What did you say?" Lisa de anymore
"I’m sorry I didn’t mean to blurt it out like that I probably should have saved this conversation for e get back to the office, only I’ to o run an errand--"
"Heather!" The tips of Lisa’s ears begin to turn red
"It’s a work-related errand," I say "Don’t worry But even if I went back to the office with you, you knoe hardly ever have any privacy there I just talked to Sarah"--I wave my cell phone in front of her--"and she says there’s another line of parents out the door--including Kaileigh’sdead She isn’t too happy that her daughter is not only assigned to a floor with a dead RA, but that her roo all the ti around Plus you have that RA candidate arriving at two, and Jasmine’s parents scheduled to arrive at three, plus nine RAs to fire When are we going to have another chance to talk about this? I’ this is nant?" Lisa’s eyebrows have shot up to their li a lot of the early sy to raiseby playing the bagpipes "Breast tenderness, , but Eva thinks--"