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...kids who can afford the extra luxury touches and those who can't. Even without a course in class differences, the students get it. Charity Jeffery, 21, says she ended up moving away from some friends when she settled into Seattle Pacific University's $14.4 million, ski-lodge-style Emerson Hall. "Emerson, right away, was referred to as the rich-kid dorm," she says. "I had to separate from friends who went to another dorm because they couldn't all afford to live in Emerson." Some schools take steps to avoid such rifts. Michigan State charges the same...
Perks, privacy and space are great, but some students find themselves missing the mayhem of traditional dorms. "In more traditional halls, it's easier to interact," says Brian Halcomb, 20, a junior who lives in Emerson at Seattle Pacific University. "You have the common bathroom, and the rooms are closer to each other, so the casual conversations and seeing people happen much easier." To parents footing the bill, though, that can be welcome news. The quiet suite that New York University sophomore Haley Plourde-Cole, 19, shares with two roommates in a luxury high-rise dorm has made it easier...
...Emerson Hall debate came as groups on both sides of the issue have stepped up publicity efforts—efforts which have at time drawn criticism...
...walls of Emerson Hall were filled with an unsynchronized but enthusiastic rendition of “It’s Raining Men,” performed by male final club initiates, as the classrom filled with students, a cow and someone dressed like Spiderman...
...Emerson supported terrorism against slaveholders, and I don’t see much of a difference between Zionism and slavery in terms of the evils they cause,” says Martillo, formerly a physics concentrator in Adams House...