Word: dorms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carol soon took on an informal role in creating the sense of family. She often arranged the birthday parties, and it was she and Mary who kept their door open late and the beanbag chairs available. It seemed entirely appropriate when May rolled around and the dorm sent her a mother's day card...
...many freshmen, a dorm is little more than an address in the Yard Dorms often become close, sometimes remain anonymous, but rarely does a dorm develop enough of a character to have a real imprint on each of its members. Yet despite its many problems, or perhaps because of them. Lionel B residents today still seem to feel just such an imprint Looking back on it now, their words seem to trip over each other, rapid and contradictory, as if welcoming the chance to try to make sense of a year they even yet do not really understand. Most seem...
...turned out, much of the year consisted of various members of Lionel having shocked and traumatic reactions to the rest of the dorm. In one rooming group, all four of the roommates had vastly different views on whether and when they should rotate among the best and worst rooms in the suite, and the disagreement nearly came to blows. Meanwhile, on the first floor, Jeff, who grew up on a farm in rural Vermont, could not comprehend his roommate Manny's relationship with Suzy, the girl next door. Suzy, who had led a tough life growing up in a troubled...
...Lionel's only certifiable celebrity; she had been a regular on the children's television show "Zoom," and was often recognized in the street. She was quiet yet friendly, and everyone considered it entirely in character when on her birthday she gave out presents to everyone else in the dorm. But behind the composure, residents of Lionel soon realized. Shawn had a profound inability to cope. People vaguely knew that she had originally entered with the Class of 1983, but only lasted a few days into freshman week. Shawn made it through freshman year, but her roommate Kathy says that...
...some cases, there was little communication at all. Many members of Lionel remember that Tim, the Indiana Mennonite, bad trouble talking with other members of the dorm. Carol recalls that when she and Tim once talked about rape, her feminist views and his religious ones clashed so violently that the discussion eventually had to be broken up by force. Others, however, remember how little Tim ever said. Gary perhaps noticed it most, since he and Tim drove west together over several vacations. "We drove west for 15 hours and he'd say absolutely nothing," Gary recalls...