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Word: dorme (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Despotic dorm crew supervisors will make their workers lick the shower stalls clean (three times). Loose floor tiles in the houses will be repaired overnight and daffodils will suddenly appear in every patch where Facility Maintenance's Fast-Gro grass seed failed...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Gin and Glitz | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...says. When she asked for an internal investigation, the accused man got to question her first, and then she had her turn. At 2:30 a.m., after 7 1/2 hours, he was found guilty of sexual assault. Days later she learned his penalty: he was barred from entering any dorm or fraternity house other than his own for four years, but he was allowed to stay on campus. "The hearing officer told me that this is an educational institution, not a penitentiary," she recalls. "He even said, 'Maybe you guys can get back together next year.' I couldn't believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clamor on Campus | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...freedom of the rest of their life. Some students arrive barely knowing how to drink and sleep, much less drink and sleep together; they have little sense of what is appropriate and what is expected of them. So with a pitcher of beer in one hand and a dorm key in the other, society's children set out to discover who they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clamor on Campus | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

Julie started dating a fellow cast member in a Carleton play. They had never slept together, she charges in a civil suit, until he came to her dorm room one night, uninvited, and raped her. Weeks later, she says, he ripped her dress at a play rehearsal and grabbed her exposed breast. Still she told no one. "If I had been raped by a stranger, I would have told someone. But to be raped by a friend -- I began to wonder, Whom do you trust?" She struggled to hold her life and education together, but finally could manage no longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clamor on Campus | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...against the college. They claim the school knew these men had a history of sexual abuse and did nothing to prevent their attacking again. Even after the men were found guilty of sexual harassment, they were allowed to remain on campus, and the victims were barred from warning their dorm mates under the college's privacy policy. The local police chief says that in the past six years, no Carleton official has brought an assault victim to the department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clamor on Campus | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

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