If all the girls at Bennington were laid end to endDon't we all dream of marrying a painter-printmaker-boxer? Charles Miller and Amy Sohn got married. "I've been with a lot of women," he said. "I'm 43. I went to Bennington." Oh ho ho. Ho ho ha ha hee. Full disclosure: I was once a Bennington girl. Yes, I remember the chilly fall nights, the ardent intellectualism, and the time that one of the houses on campus had to be fumigated due to a rampant crabs infestation. One alumni weekend, I remember sitting in one of the houses among a mix of pie-eyed grad students and recent alums. Among them was Tom Sachs, who was trying to talk me into accepting a fieldwork term internship at his sculpture studio. "I dunno, Tom," I told him. "I don't think my mother would be happy with me living in Brooklyn with a Young Turk such as yourself." Lubricated conversations flowed around us. "But think of the opportunity! I'll teach you how to weld! [I already knew how, but whatever] Plus you get free room and board. And a fifty-dollar-a-week stipend!" "What for?" I spat at him, taking a swig of rum from a bottle that had miraculously appeared at my feet. "Spermicidal foam?" I didn't realize how loud I said that until the whole room erupted in derisive laughter. Tom scurried away, mortified. Yeah, I gots a way with the menfolk. Posted by Dana at 10:46 AM
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Mi Vida ChochaYou know how to weld? Is there anything Dana can't do?
Posted by: j-go at October 27, 2003 09:48 AMWell, I've never done my own taxes.
Posted by: dana at October 27, 2003 10:09 AMMy brother was a Bennington boy once. I think I remember hearing something about a herpes outbreak. Syphyllis maybe? Do you think the goat boy and the lady in white are just LSD freakouts?
Posted by: taylor k at October 27, 2003 01:21 PMSarah Lawrence is another slutorama. I once lived in a house with a recently gradded SL girl and her economics professor 'husband' -- and within six months she was coming to my room, with her French friend, who went to Benningtonon exchange, and both of them
Posted by: Doug Harrell at October 27, 2003 01:24 PMDoug, how dare you string us along like that.
For the record: Goatboy: Not real
Lady in White: Possibly real
I never saw either, however, on acid or not. But weird things do happen there.
Posted by: dana at October 27, 2003 01:45 PMAn old Emerson College dorm was haunted by drug addicted dandies and prostitutes and a couple of "male-like imps". But the school recently sold all those buildings and they've been turned into condos. Suckers.
Posted by: taylor k at October 27, 2003 03:22 PMLady in white? Pikers. You ever hear of The Exorcist? It *began* at Saint Louis University. http://www.unewsonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/10/31/3dc1fca2c7e9b
Posted by: Fes at October 27, 2003 04:07 PMNobody at Bennington knew how to weld except Anthony and certainly no chicks. But it made them feel good to hold that torch and stick a couple of pieces of steel together. whoooo. Get a life.
Posted by: cyril at November 4, 2003 11:03 PMGod, I must have missed out on all the fun, all I did at Bennington was play Frisbee and Study all day...
Posted by: Bennington Blows at April 4, 2004 03:06 PM