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...faculty and students alike-is subjected to group therapy virtually all the time. The psychology is Gestalt, involving constant confrontation and intense expression of feeling. Discipline and structure are maintained primarily by the students themselves. The use of drugs, alcohol, or any violence or sex results in an instant dorm meeting and, sometimes, a call for a temporary expulsion. The student is sent outside the gates, then allowed back in after agreeing to perform 250 extra work hours for the community. If homework is neglected or a bed left unmade, fines are subtracted from the $10 weekly allowance earned...
...just troubled ones, need structure and responsibility to get through adolescence. Says he: "You can't change anybody. All you can do is set up a supportive, warm, natural environment and then a natural process takes over." But all is not sweetness and light. At endless and merciless dorm meetings, rationalizations and excuses are brusquely dismissed as "bullshit," perhaps the most commonly used word on campus...
...afternoon during her first week at Harvard Johanna Forman invited a couple of guys from her dorm to join her on a short run. Expecting a leisurely jog along the banks of the Charles, they accepted. Somewhere between Harvard Yard and MIT they realized that when Forman said "run" she meant exactly that. Unfortunately the same couldn't be said for her idea of "short...
Rotenberg said dorm crew policy allows students to keep any untagged items they find, but he added he and Gutman were not sure who had rights to the letters. "The bottom line is that (the policy) is applicable, but in this case other factors were also involved...
Rotenberg, said yesterday, he gave the letters to Sheng-Bin Chiu '79, the dorm crew supervisor who graduated in June, and returned to Malaysia., "Maybe he took them back with him." Rotenberg added...