The NYU conference is a double-header for me:

1) I am a graduate of both undergrad and grad NYU schools (quite a few years ago) and proudly affirm here and now that I have not given a penny out of my pocket to any of their alumni associations ever never at no time! I loved going to school in NY, but the school was and still is very suspect, in my opinion.

2) I just returned from spending a year in India. I can affirm here and now that, to a great extent, toilet functions in most of India — even in big cities — are not performed in toilets. Both men and women urinate in public when the urge is too great to wait for a toilet. Places where there are many Westerners have toilets. But the average Indian doesn’t wait if a wall or other mildly-hidden spot is available. Westerners might be appalled, but that’s the Indian way.