Word: dorm
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...microcosm of the college experience.The set is comprised of three partitions; stage right contains a marble stone bench and a streetlight, the center is strung up with holiday lights framing a long table strewn with red Solo cups and near-empty rum bottles, and stage left depicts a dorm room with a bunk bed and a cluttered wooden desk.While condensing the college scene into these basic settings, the partitioning also represents the integration of the characters’ very different lives into one continuous narrative. In front of these raised, partitioned sets, the stage is used as a unifying setting...
...It’s appropriate that the show should open on pre-frosh weekend. With its sincerity and intellectual openness, the show reminded me of those late night dorm conversations that everyone goes through freshman year, when the world seems on the verge of giving up all its secrets. Unlike a stoned freshman, however, Calla Videt knows what she’s talking about. She has real ideas about how people and history work together, and while they’re sometimes fuzzy, they can’t be easily dismissed; I’ve decided...
...grandmother taught me the ways of this land, a land of winding dirt roads and hills peppered with rolls of hay perched on hillsides like giant spools of thread. In my Currier dorm room, I have a patchwork quilt on my bed and pencil holders made of reused tea canisters on my desk. It is a direct result of the strength and permanence of Appalachian values and Granny’s—my family’s—diligence in their preservation...
...social opportunities for all undergraduates. The nature of the new system should be more inclusive, especially because House common spaces are much more accessible than private suites, and many students would feel more comfortable attending a party in a JCR than showing up at a stranger’s dorm room...
...fact, in Oppenheimer’s dorm room, a plushy stuffed monkey sits at the foot of her bed, a gift from one of her “dance mothers...