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...about history or classical music. He also discerned character and bravery. Once, when the two witnessed what they feared would become a brutal hazing, Martinez watched Koernke prepare to wade in on behalf of the victim: "He was going to butt-stroke somebody to protect this guy." (Instead, Martinez woke a staff member, who broke...
...Grady. "That was the first we knew he was alive and well." (O'Grady's mother, living in Spokane, his hometown, received a similar call within minutes.) The moment he heard the news, the elder O'Grady ran shouting into the bedrooms of his other two children. "I woke up Paul and Stacey, and we all just started jumping around," he said...
...woke up at 8:30 to hear a girl out in Dunster courtyard shrieking, `Someone's killed my friend, someone's killed my friend.' It went on for three or four minutes," said Timothy M. Cullen...
...heard her screaming, that woke me up. I thought it was somebody drunk," said Sean M. Doherty '96. "Then I heard more screams, louder, and got out of bed to see what was going on. I saw her stumbling aimlessly...
...then woke our other two roommates, showing them our unexpected 'guest' and inquiring if they had any idea as to who she was or from whense she came. We huddled in the hallway, debating possible hypotheses, from drunken sex that defied consciousness to a gift from heaven. One look at ourselves and we knew the former wasn't the case; one look at her and we realized that this clearly wasn't an act of divine providence. On the subject of divine providence, I want to be perfectly clear that aside from my shirt, this girl was completely naked. Although...