Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Worth '81, the south Yard senior advisor who coordinated the rooming effort this past summer. The advisors then separate the messy from the meticulous, and the socialites from the studious. From within these sub-groups, each advisor tries to create rooming units that are diverse and yet share some common bonds, Worth says...
...challenging process. There's not a recipe [for a successful rooming group]. It's just intuition," says Worth. "We want to capitalize on the diversity of the class. But you must be able to draw some line between all the members of a group. Everyone should have something in common with everyone in the room...
Despite his complaints about smoke, Zweber says he will not ask for one of these singles. "I have a hard time finding a common bond in our room. But [the FDO] succeeded if they were trying to be diverse. We're learning to deal with each other's space and how to put up with each other. We're growing. I can't complain...
Zweber is not alone in his search for the elusive common bond. Peter H. Gray '91 also says that his roommates had trouble finding features that they shared. "At first we couldn't find the common bond. Then we realized what it must be. We're all very skinny. We must have the lowest body-fat ratio in the entire building," he says...
Other freshmen say they have also found they share interesting qualities with their roommates. Wigglesworth says she does not think all of her roommates share a single characteristic, but they each have something in common with her. One roommate is "strange" in the way she is, Wigglesworth says, adding that another shares her temperament. Most important of all, she says, is that she and one of her roommates are both convinced that Richard III was the greatest English king of all time...