Word: dorms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jackson was shaken by the separatism then imposed on black athletes at Illinois. "While the white guys were out there partying with girls on weekends, the blacks sat in their dorm drinking Coke and playing cards." He quit in disgust at the end of his freshman year and secured a scholarship to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, an all-black school in Greensboro. N.C. There he excelled as a football star, an honor student majoring in sociology-economics and student body president?and he moved, almost automatically, into civil rights activism. He had organized...
Walking back through the Common from the CRIMSON at about 4 this morning I suddenly realized that I had forgotten my dorm key. This is an unforgivable sin. Discovering that Briggs Hall is not only impregnable, but also uninhabited at this hour of the morning. I gave up in despair and began to head back to the CRIMSON couches. As I left the quad I saw a couple returning to Briggs. In jubilation I asked them if they would let me in. "No." said the girl. "But I live here." I answered. "Let's see your bursar's card...
...hearing range to go to the Aquarium. The trip was enough of an up to give me the strength to face what I had been warned would be the worst experience-Saturday night at the Cliffe. Up till now I had made a practice to be out of the dorm as much as possible on Saturdays, especially at night. But curiosity...
...fuzzy slippers couldn't hide the real sorrow of the tiny group of girls huddled around their milk and cookies. Saturday night at Harvard is really very little different from any other night. It does not carry the onus of "date night." But at Radcliffe on Saturday night the dorm is depopulated and only a few remain. It may not be in fact, terribly sad, but it sure seems that...
...feel that the coed experiment is a definite step forward for women on the path to liberation and for men towards understanding the special problems of women in this society. In Briggs Hall the experiment has been only a partial success. Other dorms have had brighter results. In Moors, for instance, boys are spread out through the dorm, and much of the paranoia of males as a minority has been eliminated. A ratio closer to one-to-one would also help. The Kagan Committee and others in power should consider these problems in future coed plans. The boys still...