Living

Where I Slept: Memories of dorm life
I once read that the singer Lionel Ritchie returned to his alma mater and, with the enormity of wealth that doesn’t quite know what to do with itself, bought his old college dorm room. He decorated it in the fashion of his youth and, from time to time, went back and maybe spent the night but, more likely, just sat for awhile on the edge of his bed and looked around at his past. It is a kind of self-indulgence that I can both mock and long for at the same time. | full story

Thinking Outside The (Year)Book
Gary Gladstone came to Sarah Lawrence in the mid-1950s, intending to photograph, just for fun, what he later called the College’s “attractive women and interesting physical campus.” | full story

Together, At Last: SLC goes coed
“Obviously, the best reason for a man to come here is the same as for a woman,” President Esther Raushenbush wrote in 1969. “That is to get a Sarah Lawrence education, which is different in important ways from education elsewhere.” | full story

Dating Myself: Reflections on coeducation
More than three long decades have come and gone since I attended our beloved alma mater, this with no small help from a sizable student loan. Yet it seems like only yesterday that I was turning into the old campus parking lot in my chartreuse VW “bug,” headed for my cozy dormitory, that comfy yet stately structure with the memorable name....What was the name? | full story

Comings and Goings
Sarah Lawrence students have come and gone, but never without words of wisdom from presidents, deans and distinguished guests. | full story