Binge
What Your College Student Won't Tell You
Chapter One
Daily Res Life
On a crisp November Monday evening just past six-thirty,
I arrived at the large, rambling cedar-shingled building
on the outskirts of the University of California's Berkeley
campus. I was there to seek the approval of the governing council
of a student co-op, hoping they would allow me to spend a
week living among them. I made my way inside. Midway down a
broad lobby strewn with mattresses, beer kegs, and empty liquor
bottles, I found a lounge where the meeting was already under
way. As I felt that old twist of anxiety you get on the first day of
anything new or intimidating, I forgot for a brief moment that I
was a fifty-something adult.
Apparently as an enticement to improve attendance, the council
president had structured the meeting around a word game.
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