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Thursday, July 11, 2019
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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
07/11/19
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Release Date: Thursday, July 11, 2019
ACROSS
1 Red ink list
6 Editor’s “never
mind”
10 Fast one
14 Naturally lit
courtyards
15 Mex. title
16 Roughly
17 Devious
nestling’s cry?
19 Word on
diet food
packaging
20 Like a coach after
a rough game,
maybe
21 Marriott-owned
hotel chain
23 Sets, as a price
24 Div. won by the
Braves 13 times
26 Besmirch
27 Early-rising
duck’s call?
32 __ Maria
35 Big bully
36 Protected at sea
37 Counselor
39 Watch for money,
usually
42 Four-time
Grammy
winners Kings
of __
43 Backspace over
45 Hosp. areas
46 Prizeworthy
cornfield
sounds?
49 Amigo
50 Letters from the
Civil War
51 Mine bonanza
55 Skated on thin
ice
59 Look into again,
as a cold case
61 Brought into play
62 Elegant dove’s
murmur?
64 Many a retired
thoroughbred
65 “It __ up to me”
66 Catcher’s
interference, in
baseball rules
67 Kit Carson House
site
68 Throw away
69 Nostalgically
fashionable
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1 Russian country
house
2 Cultural spirit
3 Work stoppage?
4 Elaborate cake
layers
5 Easy marks
6 Kazakhstan,
once: Abbr.
7 Split into thirds
8 Inscribe
9 Start liking
10 Astronomical
time period
11 Lit __
12 In the matter of
13 Kohler rival
18 Academic goal
22 Churchill’s “so
few”: Abbr.
25 Bay leaf source
27 Moon and Starr
of the NFL
28 Skewered fare
29 “And another
thing ... ”
30 2003 Masters
champ Mike
31 Brings home
32 Locker room
sprinkle
33 Brain wave
34 Admit frankly
38 To a great
degree
40 Equally hard to
find
41 Contest where
participants stand
for a spell
44 Figures
47 Elevator __
48 Bring out
51 He played Ugarte
in “Casablanca”
52 Eyeball benders
53 HGTV topic
54 Two before marzo
55 Reddish shade
56 Where to find
Java
57 Student of
Seneca
58 Just all right
60 Hungarian wine
region
63 Rehab symptom,
for short
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Later in the year around mid-
February, Keer heard an unsolicited
knock on her door followed by
the turning of the door handle.
Without notice, Carlson allegedly
entered her property. This time,
Keer said she decided to speak up.
“I told him all that we wanted
just a phone call to let us know in
case someone wants to shower or
if no one was home,” Keer said.
“He got up and started yelling at
me and waving his hand in my face
and stormed out of the apartment
and slammed the door behind him.
It was the most unprofessional
interaction I’ve ever witnessed,
and my roommates and I were
absolutely shocked. We talked to
him the next day, and I told him
to never raise his hands in my
face again because we felt very
threatened. He never emailed back
and did not respond to any of our
questions for the rest of the year,
even when the dishwasher was
leaking and there was a bird in our
apartment.”
Until the last few weeks of the
year, Keer said Carlson ignored
her and her roommates’ phone
calls and emails, which Keer
thought was because he was
upset by the February altercation.
When Keer’s lease was about
to
end
before
her
and
her
roommates finished their finals,
one roommate decided to ask
Carlson to stay a few extra days
to finish out the semester. For the
first time in months, said Keer,
Carlson responded.
“He replied something like,
‘given the way I was treated over
the last year, I have no interest in
letting you stay,’” Keer said. “But
my roommate’s aunt is a lawyer,
so she called him and he let us
stay for three extra days — which
was good — but that was pretty
much all the communication we
had with him toward the end.
Although it was an unfortunate
situation, there wasn’t anything
that could be done.”
Like
Keer,
recent
Business
graduate Aishu Chandra didn’t
think her situation with Carlson
could be remedied. Taking legal
action would be too much of a
process, and fighting with Carlson
to fix the heat in her roommate’s
room wasn’t going anywhere: the
only option, Chandra said, was to
just deal with it.
“We were just so busy with
stuff, and I had lived in (horrible)
places before,” Chandra said. “I
honestly just didn’t know what our
rights were; I feel like we just lost
a lot of energy.”
In an email to the Daily, Carlson
denied tenants’ allegations of
carelessness, failing to address
claims in a timely manner and
entering
properties
without
notice.
“Since 1976 we have offered
top-of-the-line
houses
and
apartments for students seeking
the very best housing on the U
of M campus,” Carlson wrote.
“We do not enter the properties
unless we have been asked to by
the tenants to fix something or
we are preparing for an upcoming
city housing inspection in which
case the tenants are prior notified.
For maintenance requests our
tenants have the option to leave
a voicemail, send an email or
submit a maintenance request
through our website whichever
is most convenient for them. All
emergency
maintenance
issues
such as no heat are fixed promptly.”
Gayle Rosen, staff attorney
of Student Legal Services, said
she
commonly
sees
attitudes
like Chandra’s and Keer’s, where
students — if they even come to
Student Legal Services at all —
don’t want to pursue any legal
action as the process can become
lengthy and expensive.
“I’m sure there are students
out there that don’t know we
exist, or that there is an option
here,” Rosen said. “One issue that
I see sometimes that I see with
students that come to my office,
they didn’t come here to litigate.
They don’t often want to resolve
things through litigation, so that’s
a big issue too ... There are some
situations where there is really no
choice, there are certain situations
where there is a little bit of a
choice because the circumstances
maybe are annoying but not really
too bad, and they may not want to
do something.”
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