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When the class of 2004 first stepped into Tercentenary Theatre during Freshman Week, Bill Clinton was still in the White House, George W. Bush was just a conservative upstart governor from Texas and Al Gore ’69 hadn’t yet relegated himself to awkwardly bearded obscurity. What a difference four years makes. Tomorrow, the class of 2004 will leave the New Yard graduates of Harvard College with Bush presiding over a regime marked by landmark environmental deregulation, the frustrating conflict in Iraq and a crushing deficit, just to name a few of his more significant blunders...
...Evette Porter-Lipscomb ’79-’81, who lived with Banks-Johnson and Gore in a Matthews Hall triple and then in Leverett House, also calls Banks-Johnson one of her closest friends. She says that Banks-Johnson was in many ways a college student looking to have fun and explore the world...
...Judy was kind of a dreamer type of a person,” says Lynee S. Gore ’79, who was Banks-Johnson’s first-year and sophomore roommate and to this day considers Banks-Johnson her best friend. “She wasn’t like a lot of people in our class at the time that were really, really goal-oriented and knew they wanted to go to grad school and that had their whole life planned out for them...
Porter-Lipscomb says she, Banks-Johnson and Gore often went to parties together, including many at the Fly Club...
Indeed, both Gore and Porter-Lipscomb are African American, meaning Banks-Johnson was placed into an all-black first-year dorm room. Porter-Lipscomb says same-race dorm rooms were the norm on campus and that certain Houses—including Leverett—were known to have larger populations of minority students while others—such as Eliot and Winthop—housed hardly any minorities...