The winter of 1966 hit our university in upstate New York with a ferocity1 unrivaled in decades. For three days straight, the snow swirled2 and billowed3, burying the isolated campus. Here and there strayed groups of students struggling single file against the weather, like ducklings following their mother across a road. The female students in dormitory B were confronted with4 the same problem plaguing the general population of the university.
“How are we going to get to the cafeteria?” asked one.