[Magdalen] Fwd: LOST WORDS

[Lynn Ronkainen]

so many co-ed dorm arrangements beginning in 1970 around the country at 
universities.... I remember each of my friends had different experiences of 
gender-'integration'. Within about 6 years it was all radically anything 
goes practically everywhere in state schools except guy/girl in same room, 
legally, of course.

Lynn

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When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "Scott Knitter" <scottknitter at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 4:29 PM
To: "Magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Fwd: LOST WORDS

> The dorm I was in longest was one of the lovely old ones, and I had a
> single room. Each floor had a men's wing and a women's wing. You could
> go to the other wing through the lobby, but I think only during
> certain hours. Nobody was there to prevent access to the other wing,
> but if you were there at the wrong time you were liable to be reported
> to the RA.
>
> I remember one morning when for some reason I decided to walk from our
> communal shower/bathroom to my room naked (it was only a few steps),
> and a neighbor saw me and said, "I hope a girl sees you." No, only he
> saw me. Odd thing to say.
>
> We seemed to have several nudists (I wasn't one, despite my daring
> dash described above) on that floor, including a guy called Jens who
> would strip naked and settle into the window sill in the communal
> bathroom to floss his teeth. When I came in, he'd always leap up and
> apologize profusely. I was trying not to stare or take much notice.
> He'd cook naked in the communal kitchen as well (we had no cafeteria).
> Saw that once, but I avoided the kitchen after seeing some large
> insects in there.
>
> One night I forgot to lock my room door and woke up in the middle of
> the night to find another guy from my floor standing nude, with his
> bathrobe on the floor, ordering me out of "his" bed. He was having an
> insulin reaction, it turned out later. The next day he sheepishly
> asked me if he had done what he thought he had done, and I assured him
> there was no problem. We agreed I'd keep something sugary around that
> he could eat if I noticed he was having a reaction again. I did lock
> my door every night from then on!
>
> I've heard of one or two colleges having clothing-optional co-ed
> floors. Co-ed or not, I'm not sure I could have handled that. Now I'm
> OK with nudity as long as it isn't meant to shock or offend people,
> but back then I had hangups about it. I definitely think it would be
> distracting!
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> That meant one wing was for men and one for women--and you
>> couldn't get from one to the other without going outside!
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA