Word: dorme
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Johnston, who ran varsity cross country his first two years at Harvard, has been the chair of Habitat for Humanity, on the board of directors of Phillips Brooks House and captain of dorm crew. He said he believes the combination of his academic interest in American housing policy and his hands-on experience in community service made him appealing to both the Rhodes and Marshall committees...
...water buffalo." Those words, shouted in January by Eden Jacobowitz, an Israeli-born freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, sparked one of the more bizarre incidents in the annals of political correctness. Jacobowitz was reacting to the noise being made by five black sorority sisters outside his dorm room. The women summoned the campus police. And though Jacobowitz, an Orthodox Jew, explained the epithet as a translation for the Hebrew behemah, slang for "fool" or "dummy," he was charged with racial harassment under Penn's hate-speech policy and threatened with suspension. The case became a symbol of correctness...
Park, a native of Auburn, Washington, was a sophomore biology major who lived in the Senior House dorm on campus, Ball said, She attended Thomas Jefferson High School and was an oboe player for the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra...
...pets have also become an integral part of dorm activities...
Middleton says his canine companion "listens to National Public Radio and gets to sit in some interesting dorm conversations...