“My senior year, there was an annex to the Theta Delta house, physically connected on the second level, and wood paneled, it was called the “alumni dorm” in those days, for some reason. I guess they put up visiting alums, at least had. Then it put up four of us. Steve Lewis, Les Thurow, Ara Asadourian and myself. So we lived together that year and the first day in the alumni dorm, on the wall, I think, there was a facsimile of the Constitution and there was for some reason a picture of a sword. And we debated whether the sword should go above the Constitution or the Constitution above the sword. I think one of Gaudino’s goals was to bridge the gap between the classroom and the life outside, meld them into an intellectual examination that really mattered on a personal level. And unwittingly–I don’t think we were self-consciousness about it–I think the fact that we quite naturally came together in that dorm and continued these kinds of conversations was realizing that.
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