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Chivalry in the winter weather: A thank you note

By Julia Ward

This is from the little old lady from Oxford in appreciation of Alex, a Miami student in the Business School who lent me his arm this icy January morning to make it safely from the Rec Center to my car. This morning the parking lot and sidewalks were unexpectedly slippery and all the while was swimming, I wondered whether I'd make it back to the car without breaking something. The staff didn't seem to know whether the walk had been salted, so I asked the young man who had just arrived if he'd come from the parking lot and whether it was still dangerous. Without hesitating a second, he asked whether I'd like him to walk me to the car.