Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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Home ls Where You Hang Your Hat-If There's Enough Room Wx ..,, it -.t .N The sink in a pre-fab is the right-sized For the moppet, but unfortunately it is rather small for Dad's bath. When 14,000 students are added to a community ot 7,000,crowded living conditions are inevitable. Study rooms intended for two now hold enough for a game of bridge, and the space that would else- where make a good-sized closet here becomes a small apartment. Discarded navy barracks are the only alternative to living in an attic, while a trailer camp soon becomes a small village within itself. Studying seems quite unnecessary when the inside scoop on almost any question, is available for the asking. No longer the exclusive property oi vagabonds, trailer homes have become as rooted as the traditional front porch The philosophy that proposes we live alone and like it surely has iew adherents on this campus. Even ii the opportunity were available, which it certainly is not, it seems doubtful that very many of us would like to forgo the continual excitement and hectic activity that is a natural result oi more than two college students living together under the same roof for even the shortest period ol time. 3 With ioolhardy disregard ior the calories in a bottle ot milk, ,the girls are concerned only in lunchtime gossip. 17

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J. 'ff'-St Two AM. Stories Are C1 Poor Substitute for Sleep But the Best Part of an Education

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