Word: busful
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...dollars buys a seat on the Senate coach bus that shuttles students between Wellesley, Harvard, and MIT on weekends. After buying a ticket at Out of Town News, I get on board on a Saturday night to go to my first Wellesley party...
There are only two males in the packed bus—three if you include the driver, four if you include Vin Diesel on the tiny TV screens. For the most part, the girls on the bus are conservatively dressed, hair prim and shoulder-length or tied up in ponytails. The accessories of choice are gossip rags, shopping bags, and Starbucks cups. The girls in the very back giggle over the child actors in the “The Pacifier.” Other riders chat softly or fiddle with their iPods. The scene could be mistaken for a ride...
While many girls get off at Johnston Gate, no obvious Jezebels are among them. When the bus reaches its Beacon Street stop, a mass exodus occurs and Wellesley girls are partially replaced by MIT boys. A junior from MIT slides into the empty seat next to me and strikes up a conversation. We talk about his fraternity, his Wellesley ex, and our mediocre musical ability. Robert Toscano initially seems surprised to find out that I do not go to Wellesley, but aside from comparing workloads, the tone of the conversation remains the same, changing neither for the better...
After about forty minutes, the bus pulls onto Wellesley’s campus. The bus drives past a wooded lake and castle-like structures—maybe the Rapunzel comparison is not totally unwarranted. The bus stops and unloads, and we set out to find the Hell’s Angels party...
...male icons. Interestingly enough, the few black women that we do hear about often have their achievements gravely oversimplified. In the most noticeable example, mainstream history tells us that Rosa Parks simply decided one day that she wasn’t going to give up her seat on the bus, which incidentally started the Montgomery bus boycotts, and Dr. King took it from there. You never hear that she was deeply concerned with civil rights before the bus incident, serving as volunteer secretary of her NAACP chapter, or that after refusing to give up her seat and subsequently being arrested...