Word: gongli
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...expression gazed benevolently at us as we chatted away. The post-meal atmosphere of the Tea House is easygoing and laid back. Tony pulled up a chair to join us. He told us about his brother who was formerly a Buddhist and now a follower of the Falon Gong movement, his sister who was a non-practicing Buddhist and his elder sister, a Christian. “I guess I am a Buddhist by choice,” he says with a chuckle...
Minutes since 3 intrepid Pfoho residents stole the Adams dining hall gong and used its return as leverage to win eternal interhouse rights in Adams House...
They employed one partial remedy after another—humiliating interlopers with a sonorous gong, identifying residents with fashionable ID stickers emblazoned with the Adams seal—but nothing quite worked. Eventually, after Pforzheimer defeated Adams in a “war” of nutrition, which included a football game, a tug-of-war battle and a musical theater production, Adams agreed to “adopt” Pforzheimer House. Residents of that Quadded fiefdom partake of the joys of Adams dining without having to resort to any subterfuge or indignity. But all other non-Adamsians wishing...
Though the sound of the gong will not reverberate through Adams House dining hall this spring, the Adams House Committee (HoCo) is making sure that uninvited interlopers feel the full force of their interhouse dining restrictions...
While they decided not to revive the old practice of ringing their bronze gong every time an unwanted diner enters, Adams residents have volunteered to help the dining hall staff police the flow of diners at the checker desk...