Word: dorm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Revisit suburbia. Find a friend with a car and go get Slurpees at 7-11, french fries from McDonald's and pancakes at the International House of Pancakes (IHOP). Take pictures for your dorm room wall...
Overall we're happy to be back home, where waking before nine qualifies one as a martyr and Matt Damon is considered relatively old. But sitting in our dorm room surrounded again by 7000 stressed undergrads, we're left wondering why our society is so drastically segregated by age. It might do everyone a little good to spend more time with both the "poo-poo" and the miniature poodle sets. Maybe next year the MTV Beach House can be stationed in Leisure-World...
...work here because I have to earn a living, but it's boring work. When I have money, I'll go back," he says. [TIME used its own interpreters.] The average monthly wage is 600 renminbi, or $73. The company provides meals and living quarters in spartan although adequate dorm rooms that sleep 12 and offer individual storage closets and ceiling fans for the summer. In Vietnam, by comparison, the minimum wage is $40 a month, and workers must pay for such accommodations...
...Poor dorm-room lighting might be excusable if libraries or other study spaces were Harvard student's places of learning. Rooms are rightfully the place of choice for schedule and fashion reasons--in whose library can you read in pajamas and slippers and have an alarm set to wake you if you happen to doze off? And besides, House libraries and those in and around the Yard do not themselves have such good lighting--beyond the Lamont reference room, the light fixtures provide more ambience than illumination. We can't read by mood alone...
Such dim wattage for high-powered learning cannot be attributed to mere burned-out bulbs. The problem exists across campus and may even stretch to other colleges. A friend at Amherst told me that a housing administrator admitted to him that dorm room lights were only supposed to be sufficient to find the switch for another light. If this is also the case at Harvard, a serious ocular injustice is occurring here. We may not need cable TV, and we now have two-ply toilet paper, but we desperately need light...