Word: dorms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...room next door and cry, as rug, walls and violin gathered dust? How could we know that the Merit Scholar would run up and down the hallways for exercise, shouting the lyrics to "Rockabye Baby"? How could we know that the Shakespeare expert would sneak around the dorm at night stealing food from everybody's rooms? That the poet, our roommate, would never get out of bed? That the biochemist, three doors down, never slept? That the aristocrat would run away, leaving behind only her collection of bottlecans? How could we Know...
...first week of my freshman year at Radcliffe, our dorm residents held an introductory meeting to announce that five girls had been raped on Garden Street and we should please never walk through the Common at night without an escort. This warning was met with nervous laughter and pseudo-sophisticated scorn. Everyone continued to walk defiantly through the Common, whether attended or not, no one got raped without at least first giving her consent, and when, that spring, a man wandered off the street into Jordan J and stabbed a girl with an ice-pick, only...
...serious about intramurals until that one week at the end of the basketball season." Bujalski said. "And the proctor and Yard adviser gave added incentive by promising a victory party for the dorm...
Three youths, one armed with a six-inch knife according to an eyewitness, were let into Barnard by unsuspecting South House residents. They rang the bell of the door facing the Radcliffe Quad for about 15 minutes, and were refused admittance by several students before entering the dorm, said Liss Jeffry '73, who observed the scene from a fourth-floor window...
Self-Teaching. Once accepted, Hampshire students can take a year off before entering college. But the campus, atop a high meadow overlooking the Connecticut River valley, is hard to stay away from. The one dorm constructed so far is coed and co-genus: pets are permitted. Hiking trips substitute for intercollegiate athletics. The college inaugural convocation included a kite-flying festival-and a recent brochure spoofs the lack of campus history by putting photographs of the event in Victorian-style frames. Students are not labeled freshmen, sophomores, juniors or seniors. Instead, they can spend as long as five years taking...