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Trouble began after a mixer one evening last March, when she and a male cadet, whom she loyally refused to identify-he apparently was her financé, Mark Lewis, 22, a senior from Las Vegas-went to bed in her dorm room. Most colleges officially frown on student sex on campus but handle the matter by looking the other way. Not so the Merchant Marine Academy, which classifies copulation in the barracks as conduct unbecoming and worthy of dismissal...
...presented is one of regimented hardship, mandatory sleeping on concrete, blind obedience and a denunciation of self and creativity. It is possible to view sales school that way; but then again, it's also possible to view your entire first semester at Harvard solely in terms of the freshman mixer...
...muggings, no hijacks, no escaped lunatics. But the Boston subway as Saturday evening entertainment turned out to have its advantages: cheaper than a drive-in, warmer than ice-skating, and more conducive to intimate discussion than a freshman mixer...
...find assorted bizarre events going on in the Yard because of its size, than at the Quad, the freshmen at the Quad get noisier as they get less intimidated by the presence of upperclassmen. Doors open onto corridors and stereos start blasting and there'll even be a mixer or two. And if you don't like where you're living this year, remember that it only lasts a year--and if you don't like the people living near you, well, you don't have to let your residence determine your friends...
...Mixer: You've made it through the week, and then this had to happen. It may be a real rite de passage, but usually it just sends freshmen back to their rooms to write letters to girl and boy friends back home. The mixer is much like renting a room for your senior prom and finding out when you walk in that 12 other schools have also booked the hall that night. Go, if only to give you something to talk about for the next ten weeks...