Word: mathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MATHER HOUSE residents aren't happy these days. Their House is so crowded that in some cases more than 10 people share one bathroom. Most sophomores and some Juniors are sleeping in common rooms, and more than 80 percent of the low-rise suites are crowded...
...parked car which had been reported stolen was destroyed by fire outside Mather House late last night in an apparent arson...
Fire charred the paint job and gutted the interior of the white 1974 Buick Regal sedan, which was parked on Flagg St. between Mather tower and Peabody Terrace. No injuries were reported...
...Thomas Aquinas Just War Award: to a Mather House candidate who bemoans the concrete jungle's crowding and strict no-alcohol policies, and says on his poster, "Let's face it. Mather House gets no respect... The self-respect of our House and ourselves is worth fighting for. I place myself in the service of that struggle and ask for your support...
...Best Variation on Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" Idea Award: to a suspicious Canaday Candidate who writes, "I've heard nasty rumors that Canaday residents get dumped into Mather. If this is so, I say we dump the House lottery." Runner up was harder to choose, because it seems as though each member of the Class of '88 is convinced that the computer which allegedly assigns him housing it secretly rigged to ship him off to the Walker St. vicinity. But the second place award in this category has to go to the Weld/Wigglesworth/Grays candidate who so eloquently expressed lotterophobia...