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...River, the genders rarely mixed. Men and women only met in classes and at awkward mixers. Everywhere, there were rules: women had to leave men’s dorms by 11 p.m., women could not enter House dining halls alone, and men had to check in at the bells desk of a woman’s dorm lobby before meeting with her. It was a time of protected purity. It was also the age of Love Story...
...studious junior from a backwoods high school. He wanted to work with rural folks in the future, either as a forest ranger or a doctor. Everyone knew Phil: he held spots on Quincy’s Social Committee and HoCo and a job at the dining hall desk, checking everyone in. But he was still shy and awkward around girls...
...even had to pass a literal gauntlet in the Quad: the infamous bells desk. North House had only one entrance, one staircase, and one elevator, and the bells desk guarded them all. Barbara’s weekly stint at the desk, where she controlled the switchboard and single phone line, kept her up-to-date on the dorm’s romantic drama. It even gave her the chance to broadcast information about friends’ dates using a code. One buzz was a phone call; two, a female visitor; three, a male visitor. Staccato buzzes meant an attractive male...
...Amanda M. Coe, and Paul H. Scott—compiled their predictions into a 50-page final paper for their KSG class, “Driving Forces in American Politics.” This December report has since been leaked to the media and has even arrived on the desk of Sen. Hagel himself...
...covering for the Pope during temporary absences, such as the last week's hospitalization, and was slated to stand in for John Paul at this week's meeting in Rome with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Virtually every major internal Vatican decision and document lands on Sodano's desk. Perhaps the strongest moral voice behind the Pope is Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 77. The German prelate, who has headed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which oversees moral and theological issues, since 1981, is a trusted ally, who in the past has drawn fire for cracking down...