Word: dorm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students today are astounded to hear about the rules we (mostly) obeyed. Getting permission to stay out after 10 p.m. Limits to boys' visits to our rooms. We took it for granted, and are more astounded at dorm life today. One member of this class wrote that after visiting a grand-daughter in college, and observing life in a co-ed dorm, she found it an "innovation which I am sure I would not like...
...also enlivened our social life. Romance blossomed, as more and more Harvard students were drafted or enlisted and went off overseas to fight. Many Radcliffe students, including me, got married, and Radcliffe now allowed married students to remain in college. One Radcliffe dorm housed WAVES, women naval officers attending the U.S. Naval Service Supply School at the Harvard Business School, bringing war very close to home. On graduation, almost 10 percent of our class went into the services...
...unrelated incident, a student named Eden Jacobowitz shouted at Black sorority women when they made noise outside his dorm one January evening. Among the students who yelled from the dorm that night, Jacobowitz was the only one who admitted he had called to the women. His cry--"Shut up, you water buffalo"--was construed as a racist statement, and he faced an administrative trial on racial harassment charges, brought up by the sorority members and the university. At the eleventh hour, the women dropped their charges against him, and Penn followed suit...
David M. Nuzum '96, who lived in Thayer Hall and will be in Eliot next year, encountered different obstacles while moving out of his dorm. His roommates went home before him, leaving him with 20 boxes and many pieces of furniture that he was supposed to simply "get down to Eliot somehow...
Young, whose Harvard number has been disconnected, has left few clues around the University as to the nature of his dealings. Students interviewed in his Morris Hall entryway said last week that they did not know Young and hardly ever saw him in the dorm...