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The administration of Yale University recently voted to supply lavatories in its student dormitories with soap. The change didn’t come easily, but then Yale’s mascot is a bulldog: Students have been lobbying for the innovation for a decade, candidates for President of the Student Council have run election campaigns on the promise of winning soap, and the Student Council has a standing “Soap Committee.” In 1997 one of the university’s deans said: “The real reason there are no soap dispensers is that there have never been soap dispensers.” But John Pepper, who was a member of Yale’s governing corporation at the time, said the university “couldn’t figure out how to make it work economically.” (Yale has an endowment of $15 billion.) Asked about the recent decision, Pepper, who was once chairman of Procter & Gamble, the maker of Ivory, Olay, and Zest soaps, told a reporter: “I think it’s great that people have soap.”
(Our question is this: If Yale had supplied its students with soap three decades ago when George Bush and John Kerry were classmates there, would their Presidential campaign have been any cleaner? Answer: Cleaner, maybe, but slipperier, too.)
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