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- 75 - usual features of social life on the campus. Moreover, I decided in the beginning to devote as much time to student activities as I could. I joined clubs organized to discuss decorative arts and architecture and I thus learned something of what was taking place in these fields, including the early work of Le Corbusier. In my last year, I was a member of the Student Affairs Council which dealt with student misdemeanors. I found this distasteful but I felt it part of my responsibility to the college community. Who was I to sit in judgement on a student accused of cheating in an examination? More often than not, I felt sorry for those who were brought before the Council. there were interesting cases, too. I had never heard the term, "kleptomania," until a girl came before the Council accused of stealing in her sorority house. She came from a wealthy family, but evidently the compulsion to steal was too strong; the evidence against her was irrefutable. Another culprit, it developed, was not a student at all. She was a tart from San Francisco who had come to the campus looking for clients.