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...rooming group—their era’s equivalent of a blocking group—and she’s going through them all: Claire, Carole, Susie, Leslie, and the men—Mike, Tim, Ed and Jim. Thirty years ago they were in Mather, sharing a bathroom door—it had a lock. Thirty years ago Jody was a coast away, time stretching like land in front of her: this is what she talks about, curled up with phone neck-and-shouldered, legs crossed, making sure her interviewer is still interested every once in a while?...
...four girls lived together their sophomore year. They shared a bathroom with five other sophomores who had known each other at Exeter. The next year the group went in three separate directions: Jody and Claire stayed together, as did Leslie and Carole, with Suzie attaching herself to another group. Leslie and Carole both ended up taking a year off before graduating, and upon returning they lived off-campus...
...sophomores, the three men picked up Mike Ericksen ’79 and lived together in Mather for the next three years. It was as seniors that the group lived next-door to Claire and Jody, in adjoining rooms with a bathroom in between. “The suites in Mather were huge with these joining bathrooms,” explains Jim, “so you get lots of people—your rooming group became quite extended...
...want. I mean, what am I supposed to do tonight? How will I ever get to know my eighth blockmate, the one whom I agreed to live with because he looks like a total bro in his Facebook profile picture? If we’re going to share a bathroom for the next three years, there is no way we can meet sober...
...people don’t realize that using a bathroom or checking off gender on a form can be stressful to gender nonconforming people,” she says. “Some of the discrimination that goes on is just unconscious or routine rather than in the form of harassment or outright malice...