February 8, 2002
The Crack House: Why Off-Campus Housing Is Vital
During my senior year in college, I lived in a former church. Inside, when afternoon sun poured through the windows, a beautiful hardwood floor glowed orange like a bed of embers raked flat. Looking at the building from across the street, you could see a large stained-glass window high above the doorway. Looking up even higher, you could see where a steeple once stood.
The building had been abandoned 77 years earlier in favor of a new, larger church, and soon thereafter was converted
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