{"id":5086,"date":"2004-10-25T12:05:55","date_gmt":"2004-10-25T16:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/10\/25\/saratoga-springs-springs-for-"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:19","slug":"saratoga-springs-springs-for-public-toilets-raises-potty-parity-sti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/10\/25\/saratoga-springs-springs-for-public-toilets-raises-potty-parity-sti\/","title":{"rendered":"Saratoga Springs springs for public toilets – raises potty parity stink"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For half a century, it wasn’t only the horses racing to the finish line in Saratoga Springs, NY,<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the trendy “summer place to be.”  Tourists enjoying the city’s main park often discovered<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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too late that no public restrooms were available there.  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"restrooms\"  The Albany Times Union<\/EM> reported yesterday, however, that “Public facilities are <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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due to open before the summer tourist season in a $180,000 project at Congress Park. ”  (Oct. 24,<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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2004, <\/FONT>Restroom plan offers relief to Spa City visitors<\/FONT><\/A>).   While cheered by many, the project has,<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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naturally, raised the “<\/FONT>potty parity<\/FONT><\/A>” issue, which ethicalEsq<\/EM> discussed last year.<\/FONT><\/FONT>                                                                                               <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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University of Chicago law professor Mary Anne Case, creator of the <\/FONT>Toilet Survey<\/FONT><\/A>, has been<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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studying the issue for years, <\/FONT>and explains that separate facilities are not always equal, as equal<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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square footage does not produce equality.  Thus, she <\/FONT>says<\/FONT><\/A>:  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“What are you equalizing: excreting opportunities, or are you equalizing waiting time? <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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I’m not being frivolous when I say these are important questions to debate.”<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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As the home of liberal Skidmore College, and proud of both its traditions and its progressiveness, I’m <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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counting on Saratoga Springs to help clarify, and <\/FONT>maybe solve, many of these issues.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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