Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every month, the HRBDC sponsors a set of dance lessons held in the Currier House Fishbowl and the Winthrop House Junior Common Room to earn money for the club and teach the art of ballroom dancing...
They "form a uniquely diverse sort of community united by a common experience," Hicks says...
...have anything that is officially called a student center. There is actually an attempt right now on behalf of the students to get that going and get the administration to prioritize that. But we do have a couple of places, one of them is Loker Commons where we'll be going, which is a place with a cafeteria, pool tables, a TV room, some computer terminals--sort of a place to go and meet people and hang out, do whatever. In the upperclass houses and in and around the Yard there are things called common rooms that...
...University offices, making it surprisingly more convenient and pleasant than might at first be apparent. The registrar is on the way, along with the undergraduate economics department and the Student Disability Resource Center offices. Hoofing to and from the Yard also brings travellers by the offbeat beatniks of Cambridge Common and the dapper Sheraton Commander bellhops, as well as within smelling distance of the HUPD headquarters' donuts...
...thesis-enamored seniors, although two sophomores are actually housed there this semester. Other anomalies of note are the top-floor Pforzheimer suites (which come with skylights) and the infamous Currier 10-man. Occupying space originally allotted for the House offices, the Currier suite includes ten singles and a large common area. 10-man resident Brian Friedman, '00, believes that the room has a particular social role on campus, which it has thus far dutifully upheld this year...