<p>Vassargrad,
Your beautifully written post could easily have been written by any of my classmates, as I have memories of a similar story from a friend in Davison, down to the footie pajamas part. Funny, I have no memory of the faculty in Joss, or if there even was a faculty apt. I have strong memories of the faculty family in Main, where I lived my last 2 years. You mentioned that students stayed in their dorms all 4 yrs. That wasn’t so true when I was there, though I think students staying had higher priority than students moving in in room draw. And, the THs and TAs were just opening then- a real attraction to upper classmen. I think the school lost some of its “res college” feel when they closed the individual dorm dining rooms. I understand why, but it was sad.
And I don’t and didn’t feel that the dorm faculty were pseudo parental snoops. You could be as close or as distant as you wished.</p>