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To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (55941)	1/16/2007 1:15:11 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57110

Funny place, my college. Couldn't afford to go away to school so I ended up in Newark, at Newark College of Engineering. I couldn't either. I've hated rich frat rats ever since. :-) So, most of the classes were held on a campus across the street from Rutgers Newark. A few building even had air conditioning. Lucky guy! :-) However! If you had a ChemE class you had to walk 3 or 4 blocks through a bombed out section of Newark to a building that should have been condemned. The year before I got there all students had to wear a jacket and tie. So it wasn't bad enough that you had to wander through the Central Ward looking like a geek carrying sliderules and 20 pounds of damn books you also had to sit in a building where the air conditioning only worked well in the winter. Slipsticks make good weapons. Didn't anybody ever tell you? :-) Our chem labs looked like they'sd been bombed too. We made the bombs. :-) I don't recall if it was the Inorganic Chem course or the proximity to the Newark Jail. Either way, it wasn't my favorite memory from college. ROTC. Power-mad student "officers" bossing around poor slobs who HAD to take the course to graduate. It was required. 7 AM drills and marching on freezing winter mornings. Then in the summer they always switched to "summer" uniforms when the temp was well over 100. They did a better job of keeping people out of the military than anything I've ever seen.