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Three years ago, the adviser for the Union dorms--Greenough, 8 Prescott St. and Pennypacker--thought it might make the foreign students more comfortable at Harvard to have a "critical mass" in one dorm. But by assembling a huge group of foreigners in Pennypacker, she limited the foreigners flavor of many of the other dorms. The failure of her experiment was not repeated...
Aside from tubercular pleas--"Please don't put me with a smoker"--students are rarely idiosyncratic. A few know whom they want to room with, some request a new or old building, but most are not familiar enough with the Yard to ask for a particular dorm. Race is rarely a problem either. While the senior advisers can hardly be color-blind--you put a photograph on the rooming application, remember? --they only occasionally consider race as a determining factor. They never get demands to keep any particular race out of a room, though a Black applicant who hopes...
They frequently crash. In Townies a young drifter murders a college girl, less out of rage than helplessness; her announcement that she would no longer sleep with him in her dorm room makes him strike out at his own rejection-filled life. In Killings a man on the eve of graduate school is fatally shot by his girlfriend's estranged husband. A month later the father's grief still grows: "It was a cool summer night; he thought vaguely of the Red Sox, did not even know if they were at home tonight; since it happened...
Being a Black woman at Harvard compounded her sense of isolation. The first day she was here Wilkerson encountered the type of racist attitudes that in Shaker Heights "were kept quiet," While she waited outside the janitor's room to get the keys to her freshman dorm, another newly arrived freshman asked her if she was the janitor's assistant. "I was shocked--I expected race not to be an issue here," she says, adding that she quickly realized that although Harvard students were bright many "brought their racism with them...
...while to get an undercover fad going. Only this year did a campus divertissement known as the "tuck-in" spread to the University of Maryland, where a group of male students calling themselves Pillow Talk Inc. offered chaste bedtime tuck-ins to any classmate in the women's dorm with 99?. That price included the company of one Teddy bear for the night, a final kiss on the cheek from one of a trio of males, two of them in three-piece suits. Best of all was a bedtime story read by a pajama-clad male sitting...