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> the halls were inundated with drunk and drugged strangers invited randomly from the street That's a big cultural shift. There used to be a term in local di
by jpmattia 9y ago
> the halls were inundated with drunk and drugged strangers invited randomly from the street
That's a big cultural shift. There used to be a term in local dialect for non-MIT people in the dorms: urchins. (even defined in HowToGAMIT a bazillion years ago, iirc.)
I wonder if that change was brought about gentrification of the area? (The bio building on Ames used to be a factory, eg.)