To recruit sitters, Ms. Thiers distributed fliers at dorms in Boston, where she then lived.
They pay minimal fees, and students must pay for books and to live in dorms.
The dorms were widely scattered, though some, resembling midsized family homes, were clustered together.
Many dorms that are relatively close to each other are registered to different precincts.
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Two dorms were "completely ripped to shreds, " CNN correspondent Ed Lavandera reported from the scene.
About 1, 200 students were believed to be in campus dorms at the time of the storm.
New stadiums and sports arenas, dorms that are like 4-star hotels, you name it.
Second-tier schools strive to improve faculty salaries and campus infrastructure (labs, dorms, libraries) to compete with the leaders.
Kaplan's version of college has no dorms, no keg parties and, essential to the distance-learning mission, no boundaries.
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While I was standing indecisively on a paved path between dorms, I saw two guys coming toward me.
Art Factory is an art-themed hostel with more private rooms than dorms.
Even homes-away-from-home--new college dorms--have gone four-star upscale with things like (energy hogging) 10-foot ceilings, granite tabletops, bigger common rooms, etc.
To fill its future trading ranks, the bank selects 1, 200 applicants to play "Fantasy Futures" right from their college dorms.
More than 150 apartments and dorms are listed in the forum, which was created by students and posted on Facebook.
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If your sleeping bag has lost its appeal, various accommodation choices from holiday homes to hostel dorms can provide a bed.
The student pods may be the world's most unusual dorms, their sides made from scrap cardboard or paved in old license plates.
Eli Capilouto, who became president of the University of Kentucky in July, said his campus needed a drastic approach to upgrading the dorms.
Another technological perk many schools are now offering is access to TV, movies and music over the Internet connections on campus and in dorms.
The fact that most of the furniture was designed for very economical shipping was a big plus with students that changed dorms and apartments frequently.
Now relief organizations have set up tents and dorms for them.
Modern college dorms are more high-tech than most office buildings, wired with super-fast connections to the Internet and equipped with all the amenities of 21st-century life.
College students spend so much money outfitting their dorms that Target Stores has begun offering round-trip bus trips to its stores from a number of campuses.
Colleges have spent millions of dollars renovating or building new dorms in order to offer the same sort of suburban comforts that many students are accustomed to.
And burglary statistics from the dorms don't distinguish forcible break-ins by outsiders from students who take advantage of an open door by helping themselves to a neighbor's BlackBerry.
The Afghans and Americans have separate dorms on the base.
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Facebook was started in 2004 in the dorms of Harvard.
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When inflation levels are low, Sysco can pass the modestly higher costs along to restaurants (and the nursing homes, sports arenas, and college dorms it also serves) with little trouble.
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