As it turns out, Troller Cosgrove lived in Chadbourne while attending the UW in the early '70s and says she hated the place - and, frankly, wasn't all that thrilled with the UW as a whole. To her, it was too big and impersonal, even back then. She notes, for instance, that Amelia not only found an interest group that shared her fascination with books, but one of its members is as big a fan of controversial author Salman Rushdie as Amelia is. Some students drink themselves into oblivion. Some students have lots of sex.
Some students get tattoos or have their body parts pieced.
I just think that's something that can happen. Or should be about, anyway. Cronon says the support of Evans, Ward, Wiley and others has been critical to Chadbourne Residential College's success. As one example, he said he took a group of staffers for a daylong retreat at his parents' cottage on Green Lake last summer. Having to devote the better part of two weeks to rent a bus take a great group of students to meeting of unquestionable pedagogical, personal and community value is absurd.