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...family that founded Brown University made much of its money on the slave trade. No one has mentioned Princeton recently, though slaves worked on that campus. And we have been reminded that many of Yale’s colleges and buildings are named after slave-owners. Even John C. Calhoun, the most notorious pro-slavery thinker of them all, has had a college named after him at Yale (not in the bad old days before the Civil War, but in the 20th century...
...call 24 hours a day and a staff of intimately involved caseworkers and administrators. There are Hope barbecues and adoption parties. On average seniors double their required volunteer hours as crossing guards, tutors, day-care aides, baby sitters and grandparents. "And the families help each other," says resident Debbie Calhoun, a married mother of nine (only one of whom is biological). "We're all doing the same thing...
...basic responsibility is to be aware of what's going on with freshmen," Tobin M. Abraham, a freshmen counselor in Yale's Calhoun College said. "We're also here to make sure things are okay with them, day-to-day roommate issues and such...
...Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan 2. Hellhound on My Trail - Robert Johnson 3. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams 4. Solitude - Duke Ellington 5. This Land is Your Land - Woody Guthrie 6. Shake, Rattle and Roll - Charles Calhoun (Joe Turner's recording) 7. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry 8. I Am the Walrus - Beatles 9. Street Fighting Man - Rolling Stones 10. Amazing Grace - John Newton
...William Sledge, master of Yale's Calhoun College, says Yale students who move off campus are often looking for the kind of rooming freedom that blocking allows Harvard's undergraduates. "Some people want more independence, they want more choice," he says...