Word: rooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sign on donor room walls tells donors that "in case of fire leave room in the same way you entered it." Well, I did leave that room, but not the way I entered it, for I was a new man now: $50 in hand and a huge load off my back...
Reading Nerve--the Web's most publicized venture into erotica--in a dorm room is dangerous. There's little you can say in self-defense when caught reading "Nine and a Half Months: Bernadette Noll Can't Get Enough Pregnant Sex" at 3 a.m. But this is the type of embarrassment for which Nerve's contributors and editors have no concern; their Web site (http://www.nerve.com) is chock full of twisted tales of procreation, artsy pictures of naked people and analytical essays on strange sexual topics...
When Jacob A. Rubin '03 returned to his room in Matthews Hall around 3:30 a.m. the morning of Sunday, Oct. 3, he left his Yankees cap on his desk in his suite's common room. The next morning, his roommate Geoffrey M. Stevens '03 woke up around 11 a.m. He checked his e-mail and then went to the bathroom. The bathrooms in Matthews don't have any paper towels, just an ineffectual hand-dryer, so Stevens dried his hands with toilet paper. When he threw the wad of toilet paper in the garbage can, he saw it land...
...Rubin was awake and using his laptop computer at his desk when Stevens returned to the common room and asked Rubin if his hat was in the bathroom garbage. As Matthew D. Gibson '03, the third roommate, remembers, "Jake was like, 'No, it's right on my desk.'" But when Rubin checked his desk, he saw his hat wasn't where he left it. "We thought it was a prank," Gibson says. Rubin recalls: "I was very perplexed, to say the least, because at that time we hadn't realized anything else was stolen. We thought someone had broken...
...This was in the thick of the baseball playoffs, and preliminary suspects, Rubin jokes, included any Red Sox fans in the vicinity. Gibson says "We thought it was just a little bit creepy that someone had gotten into the room, but it was more like, 'Oh, shit, Jake can never wear his hat again because it's been sitting in the garbage can.'" At this point Rubin realized he probably had neglected to lock the door the night before...