personal anecdote WAS [Alumni-chat] Why Aren't the Students Using the Library?

[Sonia Jaffe Robbins]

I certainly used the library for its explicit purposes, but my 
strongest memory of the library is that it's where I learned to 
smoke. I.e., there was a smoking section in the library, either near 
the doors, or  between the inner and outer doors. And I noticed that 
if you smoked, you could take a cigarette out to the smoking area and 
meet a boy by asking for a light. So that's why I started to smoke. 
Of course, once I'd gotten my cigarette lit, I usually couldn't think 
of anything else to say, but I was guaranteed at least 10 minutes of 
hanging around whichever boy I'd asked for a light.
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Sonia Jaffe Robbins
Antioch College, '60-'62, '64
sjr5 at nyu.edu		srobbins at reedbusiness.com
http://www.neww.org.pl       http://www.nyu.edu/classes/copyXediting

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