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...WHEN they arrived at the door of her dorm, Martin guessed correctly that Susan had had enough punishment. Nevertheless, he knew that they could have a good time together if he could only be himself; hope sprang forth, and he asked her out for the next Saturday...
...things and people converge around her. Possessions flow from person to person getting broken and lost as they move, a letter comes from abroad and has its stamp ripped off before the addressee sees it, daily events like meals and the arrival of Gordon linen march blindly on, compulsory dorm meetings are held, toilets flushed, people talk. The individual girl has no control over events or time, can start or stop nothing, feels no responsiveness from her world. The stage has no exists...
Studying, the activity that this world wants her to want to do, might be a way of climbing out into some sort of fresh air and freedom. But the interruptions and the noise that make dorm life what it is make studying impossible. The constant noise creates a constant non-transcendant now and here. The roar of meals, the music other people use as futile anodynes for the same conditions, the telephones, the feet, the piano in the lower regions, the voices and the plumbing make the space she is sitting in come alive as a huge, swaying, indifferent body...
...amount which a student is expected to contribute from term-time earnings-or by taking out a loan-has been raised from $500 to $600. Currently, dorm crew and dining hall workers earn from $700 to $800 a year by working 8 to 10 hours a week, he said...
Final Freedom. Behavior benefits all around. "People generally are on their mettle a little more," says Dick Palmer, manager of Berkeley's co-op housing, which includes two coed dorms. "The men are a little more gentlemanly and the women a little more womanly." Asks Stanford Junior Craig Wilson: "When was the last time you heard of a panty raid in a coed dorm...