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LARA TALEVSKI LEFT: 2 THE NEW YORKER, FEBRUARY 26, 2018 THE MAIL ALL JAMMED UP THE TRUTH ABOUT ASSAULT Joshua Rothman’s article on paper jams Jia Tolentino ends her article on Colum- resurrected my memories of three decades bia University’s attempt to decrease in- of altercations with printers in computer stances of sexual assault on campus with shops all over Baltimore (“Jambusters,” a hypothetical scenario described as a February 12th & 19th). I was a business- drunken “blur” (“Safer Spaces,” Febru- forms designer and salesman in the era ary 12th & 19th). I have worked with of continuous, pin-fed paper forms. (Re- sexual-assault survivors on campuses for member paper with holes down each two decades. What I have seen, time and side?) My day would often begin trying time again, are male perpetrators who to coax interleaved and fanfolded sets of premeditate their crimes, choosing vic- crimped-and-perforated carbon through tims based on who they think is least an I.B.M. 1403 printer at twelve hundred likely to report them. This reality is miss- Luis de Lucena, Arte de Ajedres, first edition of the earliest surviving manual of chess, Salamanca, circa 1496-97. lines a minute, which is like trying to ing from the persistent argument that if Estimate $10,000 to $15,000. shove a quilt through a mail slot very students drink less and have comfort- quickly. If that worked, it was on to the able seating aside from their beds then Early Printed, Medical, decollator, a Coupe de Ville-length ma- their fumbling behaviors will change. Scientific & Travel Books MARCH 8 chine that transformed the sets into a Tolentino acknowledges that “there will neat stack of forms and multiple rolls of always be people, mostly men, who ex- Tobias Abeloff • [email protected] carbon paper. Next was the burster, a vi- perience a power differential as license Preview: March 3, 12-5; March 5 to 7, 10-6 cious paper-eating device that ripped the to do what they want,” but it bears re- 104 East 25th St, NY, NY 10010 • 212 254 4710 SWANNGALLERIES.COM forms into individual sheets (or to shreds) peating that sexual assault is not primar- with the speed and the racket of a tommy ily about sex but, rather, about the power gun.