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- From: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
- Subject: Re: Why is it called a Res Hall and not a dorm?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.212550.1470@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 21:25:50 GMT
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- Kevin Murphy writes:
- >
- >Ok... Some things are obvious.. I mean, I can see that
- >feminists might be offended by policeMAN, etc... but
- >why is it politically incorrect to call the place whree
- >students live on campus a Dorm?
-
- Don't know, but I always refused to call my dorm anything
- but a dorm. It really annoyed the people in the "Residence
- Hall Association." One of them even wrote me a letter
- explaining why my dorm was actually a residence hall and not
- really a dorm at all. I was glad to finally be set straight.
-
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- James Hague
- exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
-