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Although the worst leaks did not begin until the cold weather, persistent problems have plagued the dorm since October, James A. Klein, senior adviser in Canaday, said yesterday...
...feel the state's lower age limit has actually increased drinking because of the unavailability of booze to teen-agers by the single drink. Says Student Tom Wurster, 19: "You buy it. What are you going to do with it? You can't bring it into the dorm. Down it goes...
...Boston Herald: "The marchers were denied when they confronted a group of freshmen jocks." The aforementioned "jocks" were a group of freshmen who for the most part had been watching the Bruins/Flyers hockey game on TV 38 and were summoned by a would-be Paul Revere who went from dorm to dorm in the Yard screaming of Shannon's impending doom. Out of nothing more ideological than terminal boredom, the masses were so aroused. So much for social consciousness...
Joseph Celluci, city building inspector whose jurisdiction includes the University, said Tuesday he has conducted spotchecks of two dormitories. Celluci said he inspected Pennypacker Hall on Nov. 15, and a few days later inspected another dorm whose name he could not recall...
...question of the unmarried couple is everywhere. How to handle the linguistic problem of what to call the person with whom one's daughter lives? "Lover" is too archaically lubricious by a shade or two. "Roommate" sounds like a freshman dorm. "Bedmate" is too sexually specific, but "friend" is too sweetly platonic. "Boyfriend" and "girlfriend" are a bit adolescent. "Partner" sounds as if they run a hardware store together. The Census Bureau calls them "Partners of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters" or PossLQs. Mrs. Billie Jenkins, an elegant hostess who lives on Boston's Beacon Hill, has developed...