Word: dorms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another explanation comes from the "party theorists," students who credit the new mood to their efforts to promote Pennypacker's reputation as a "good party dorm." "It all started when we read in The Crimson that this place is the pits--because we know it isn't," says Christina L. Brown '80. The students got together the first weekend they arrived, passed a hat, and staged the first of a long string of parties that have enticed students from the Yard to make the great trek across Prescott Street. "Brian's Song" is no longer the main attraction, and there...
Pennypacker residents still gripe occasionally about the facilities, but most seem to feel the dorm makes up in camaraderie what it lacks in luxury. "The facilities are so crummy that they must have made an extra effort to put good people here," one student theorizes. His view is accepted by those who have come to believe that Pennypacker houses the chosen people of the freshman class...
...male Pennypacker pursuits--a fact that surprises Reardon, who had expected the atmosphere to be "much more formal." But the formality and nervousness generated by conventional sex barriers are gone from Pennypacker; its residents seem to accept the incest taboo as part of living in a co-ed dorm...
Former residents generally shake their heads philosophically when asked about the "new Pennypacker." Samuel A. Bern '79, who last year fled the dorm to the co-ed environment of South House, says his decision would probably have been different this year. "The facilities weren't so bad," he says, and if there had been women around to "make the place seem less like a locker room," he would have stayed at Pennypacker instead of transferring...
...loss of the rational base of nature has led to all hs dangerous quirks. I, the urban student, slurped my cup of coffee, firing questions at him about the feasibility of what he is proposing. After the interview I went back to my temporary room in a Harvard dorm and he returned to his roots in Maine...