Apparently (that is, according to Internet chatter and what you might call secondhand anecdotal evidence), people (pizza men, college students, hotel guests) have been doing this for years, which might explain why the rest of us have occasionally had the feeling that elevators were passing us by.
Set in 1911 during a mathematicians convention at a British seaside resort run by a Mrs. Hilbert (a smug reference to the German geometrician David Hilbert), the play remarkably employs 18 actors as scientists, students, hotel workers and the wife and three daughters of Moses Vaszonyi, a leading theorist who is supposed to deliver a much-anticipated paper on the theorem of the title.
Everything is happening at once: school, student hostel, hotels, shops, conference centre, a church by the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, as well as housing for 9,000 people.
A $14 million residence hall under construction at Adelphi University in Garden City, Long Island, will offer students hotel-like accommodations with private bathrooms and individual climate controls for each room, lounges and laundry facilities on each floor and a large meeting room with terraces on the ground floor.
"I fell in love with the team in 1997," said Mr. Incarnato, 24 and a student of hotel management.
I come because I am a student of hotel culture and I know how hard it can be to get these things right.
Mr. Khan, a 28-year-old student and hotel clerk, was detained for five days at a high security prison in Santiago under Chile's antiterrorism law.
The lessons can be tailored to individual needs and can be held on school grounds or at the student's hotel or apartment.
Students studying hotel and restaurant management can also take them, and even some in the business school sign up.
The mandatory work study program requires students to clock 15 hours a week at one of 100 on-campus work stations, which include a dairy farm, grist mill and a student-run hotel and restaurant.
