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...spite of all the controversy involved with the dorm site, Canaday is only a temporary solution. By the time it is open for occupancy, the Continental will have been given over to graduate students, and in spite of the 200 students housed in Canaday, the University will have 100 extra bodies on its hands. And at this time, no one know where those bodies will be housed...
...sooner was the Hunt Hall plan announced by Bok on March 22 than new controversy erupted. The Faculty Council passed a confidential resolution in early May asking that Bok consider relocating, or substantially reducing, the size of the dorm. The Council said the new building would overcrowd the Yard, or look out of place. An ad hoc Save Hunt Hall committee, which claimed that Hunt was an architectural land-mark, collected 779 signatures on a petition asking that Hunt be saved from demolition...
FACED WITH the need to put Canaday's $3 million somewhere, Bok cut down the size of the proposed dorm, winning approval for the project from the Faculty Council, and announced to the Save Hunt Hall lobby that the building would come down...
...stupid and fumble for excuses, "I'm studying." "Great, then you'll need a coffee break." Panicked, "Well, actually, I was going to sleep." His oh-so-cool and patient laugh, "Oh come on now. At 10 p.m.?" "Yeah, well, I got bored." "Great. I'm downstairs" (the dorm was guarded by a switchboard) "I'll come right up and entertain you." At which point, having let myself in for it, I'd either go through with it and suffer, or I'd drop the niceness act--"Look, I just don't want to" and hang up mortified...
...penis in the library; I bit--a bloody bite--the grad student who followed me from Harvard Square, hurled himself upon me, and tried to rape me in the Commons; and I called the cops when I spotted him waiting in a grey Chevy outside my dorm the next day. These Painful Perverts threatened me physically, therefore I had a right to hate them. The others, less brutal, were not so easy to dismiss. There were the Friends of Friends and the Hometown Boys, the Hustlers--"I saw your picture and I fell in love"--and the Hipsters--"Look, baaaa...