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...side were Larry and the rest of the plebeians, who sat around in the proctor's room watching the game and who always cared who won. On the other side were the handful of full-blooded preppies, the ones who dropped in after the punch and only cared who won if they had a ten spot riding on the outcome. Carlo had no excuse to come in late and he had neither genuine enthusiasm nor money to bet, so he didn't fit in anywhere...
...proctor didn't help much, either. Carlo's proctor was a paunch, balding Deerfield grad named Nick who worked in the dean's office; he looked and sounded like Ed Mac-Mahon with a Boston Brahmin accent. Nick used to travel around the country and would lend his room to the preppies on weekends, who in turn used it to entertain young ladies of impeccable breeding and not-so-impeccable morals. Carlo felt very uneasy around Nick, and as Nick felt very uneasy around any outsider who knew what went on in his room over the weekend neither of them...
Well, the situation began to get desperate and by the spring the Wiggles worth proctor gave up on the kids and got a University policeman to look into the suite to see what was going on. As soon as the policeman walked in he found eight street people strewn comfortably on the floor. As the cop proceeded through the suite the sound of a flushing toilet could be heard as more street people discretely disposed of their wares. The trip to the bathroom revealed eight more brethren. A final jaunt to the bedroom saw nine more residents--25 freeloaders...
Turner Graybill, a proctor in Pennypacker said yesterday the "typical sentence" for being convicted of criminal trespass in this case has been a fine of $100 and 15 days in jail, and he did not expect Arnold's sentence to be any different...
Turner Graybill, a second-year law student who is Arnold's proctor, said last night that University policy would leave the responsibility up to the individual professor or section leader to decide on an incarcerated student's academic standing in a course...