First, some advice:

"What would you do when you're in the Reg bathrooms and the thing flushes insanely and then doesn't flush when you need it to flush?"

This highly relevant question was posed by one of What Would Phoebe Do?'s loyal readers who shall remain nameless. I, too, have had this problem, and offer the following solution:

One possibility is to avoid the Reg bathrooms entirely. Bathrooms in the Reynolds Club still have the old fashioned flushes, and, in times that are not emergencies, one may simply walk across 57th Street and there you go! Another possibility is to make less use of Ex Libris, purveyor of the soda and coffee responsible for many trips to Reg bathrooms. Dehydration is always good. The most reasonable solution, however, is to emulate the wise and noble students who protested against Citibank, Taco Bell, and the Red Line Shuttle, and form a massive campaign to remove the automatic flushing devises, which are a manifestation of American imperialism at its worst. (Why should University students have access to the automatic flushing toilets while members of the Hyde Park community do not?)

Next question, please.