"It was a spontaneous thing done just for fun," the student said, "but if the cops had come along, I think we would have offered to put all the toilet paper back."

Tom Sawyer Mimics Paint Union Gate

Those Yardlings just won't leave the Freshman Union alone.

In their latest Union prank, still-unidentified students painted white both a men's restroom door and the newly-installed gate that adjoins the dining hall, causing more than $3000 in damages.

Dining Service Supervisor John Shaffer said he found the paint still wet on the gate when he arrived at 4:45 a.m. last Thursday. In addition, he said paint had been splattered on the stone passageway surrounding that gate, on the stone floor and on chairs inside the dining hall.

Shaffer said the gate--installed a month ago as a security measure--was still locked.

Beginning today, workers will remove the splattered paint from the stone, sand down the gate and repaint it black, its original color.

Union Dining Hall Manager Katherine E. D'Andria speculated that the students who painted the gate were the same students who moved all the chairs from the dining hall to the second floor last month.

D'Andria said that the management plans to tighten security in the Union to prevent similar occurrences. "It's not a joke wasting that kind of money," she said.

And the quality? "It's a poor painting job," D'Andria added, pointing to the mess around the area and the uneven application of paint.

Cancer Confidential, Radcliffe Panel Says

A panel discussing the complex challenges women with cancer face in the workplace adamantly emphasized yesterday that these women are in no way compelled to informed employers of their medical conditions.

Barbara Hoffman, a lawyer who serves as vice president of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, told an audience of 20 at the Cronkhite Graduate Center that employers had no right to know a woman's medical information unless her condition could impede her ability to perform her duties.

"Legally, your diagnosis is none of their damn business," she said.

Hoffman said that 25 percent of all cancer victims experience job discrimination because of their medical history. Widespread perceptions that cancer is contagious, automatically terminal or necessarily debilitating were the most common sources of this discrimination, she said.