I go back to the common room to calm down.
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A fireplace creates a cozy atmosphere in the Gryffindor common room.
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In a common room, stacks of books stretch to the ceiling.
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Remember the cinnamon challenge craze that swept your sixth form common room?
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Dinner was served in the high-ceilinged common room at Crooked Creek.
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These aren't your colors, this isn't your common room, HOW CAN THIS BE?
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"You have a kitchen as well as your own common room," McGrew said.
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There is little reliable data available about how common room sharing is overall.
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Others might host game nights in the common room or arrange family dinners.
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On another day, someone grabbed my ass as I walked into the common room.
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In my dorm, Chittenden Hall, My So-Called Life became a common-room event.
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She escorted me past the vestibule to a common room ringed by office doors.
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Reynolds notes that even private offices often have a common room, which most employees visit.
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Once a day, he is allowed to go to the common room, where he is alone.
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Did another Yale student really call the police because she fell asleep in a common room?
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An arched passage tiled in blue and gold led to the common room of the harem itself.
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Slater and I were talking in an airy common room near the south end of Surf Ranch.
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He took in all the details as he walked through the common room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchenette.
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Caption: The largest of Olympus Town's domes contains a common room that doubles as rec room and cafeteria.
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A group of mainland students, hosting Chaguan in an HKU common room, share stories of tough parental calls.
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Cade Jarrard, a freshman pledge, sat on one of the many couches that filled his fraternity's common room.
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A university employee said Kanoute seemed "to be out of place" as she ate in a common room.
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Then, I left my friend, got into my gown and waited in a common room with other patients.
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In another, a white student calls 911 when she sees a black classmate sleeping in a dormitory common room.
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In May, a similar incident happened to a Black Yale student who was napping in her dorm's common room.
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Brie, 20, Dalhousie University You mentioned to me that you had sex in the common room on your floor.
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On some days, he might get to spend an hour alone in the common room or an outdoor courtyard.
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Alone in the common room with Harry and Ron and Hermione, I was as happy as I've ever been.
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During the week, tea is served in the guest lounge, which has been decorated to resemble a Hogwarts Common Room.
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My life was paused because I couldn't emotionally separate myself from Jordan, sitting in that common room 18 miles away.
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He has no TV. Once a day, he is allowed to go to the common room, where he is alone.
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"We sat in a common room, and they asked him questions, which he answered with his usual honesty," she recalls.
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"We sat in a common room, and they asked him questions, which he answered with his usual honesty," she said.
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And this week, a white woman called police on a black Yale graduate for napping in her dorm's common room.
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But I awoke on the morning of Tuesday, March 10, to the sound of a zipper from my common room.
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We were offered an excellent dinner, served in a common room with a big-screen TV, shared with other guests.
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Such a simple addition, but it really makes all the difference when it comes to lounging around the House Common Room.
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Last May, police were summoned to investigate a black Yale graduate student who took a nap in her dorm's common room.
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At Yale University, a dormitory resident called the campus police on a black student who fell asleep in a common room.
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A portrait of him hangs in the postgraduate common room, and scholarships in his name are still awarded to some students.
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What the hotel called its "social gathering area," or lobby, was gorgeous, but felt a bit precious for a common room.
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As grime took off, it was nothing out of the ordinary to have college MCs skip lessons for a common-room clash.
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Moments later, I walk into the common room to see a man talking to himself, while putting up posters on the walls.
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I sat in my hostel common room on the morning of Day Three, watching my poor fellow backpackers sip on bad coffee.
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A large sliding glass door will connect the common room to the lower courtyard, which will have seating around several fire pits.
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Braasch then reappeared, and Jean-Louis asked her for directions to the common room, which she said was the room she'd just exited.
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It's nothing worse than the weekly ritual of dodging VKs [alcopop bottles] as they're lobbed across the LCR [lower common room] dance floor.
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Each Friday, he would arrive at work and the images of protests would be broadcast on al-Jazeera inside the embassy common room.
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Fortunately, there is a separate kitchen and common room where Ms. Honda studies and Ms. Felstein keeps reams of fabric for her quilting.
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" She recalls "days after class where we would go to the common room and just sit because we didn't know what to do.
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A friend comes to pick up some of the common-room furniture, and talking through it with someone calms me down a bit.
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You go to the common room with two Red Bulls, a bag of books weighing as much as a car tire, and a laptop.
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On a recent visit the common room was quiet; the only pupils huddled in a corner playing Salem, "a strategic card game of deception".
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Next up, fans can explore the Studio Tour including its film sets, like the Gryffindor common room and the Weasleys' kitchen at The Burrrow.
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In the common room of a community home in Missoula, Montana, Kienholz traces the black-and-white images of tractors with his index finger.
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In recent months, police officers have reportedly been called on black people who were having a barbecue and sleeping in a college common room.
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Early Tuesday morning, Lolade Siyonbola, a graduate student at Yale, fell asleep in her dorm's common room, where she'd been working on a paper.
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He spent a lot of time at a cheap wooden desk in the common room of Suite H33 in Kirkland House creating software products.
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Possession continues at the University of Michigan's Institute for the Humanities Common Room (202 South Thayer Street, Suite 1111, Ann Arbor, Mich.) through October 20.
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In May, a Black Yale graduate student who was napping in her dorm common room had the cops called on her by a white student.
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Fatima is a young woman of about 20, who comes to talk to me in the common room; she says she suffers from postpartum depression.
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Photographs were posted online last week of the producer sitting in a common room at Bellevue, watching television in an armchair with a wheelchair nearby.
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Mark is still the same person I watched hug his parents as they left our dorm's common room at the beginning of our sophomore year.
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I was hanging out with her in the common room one day, and the girls came up to us and started talking shit to her.
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CAP said in a statement that this meeting was not mandatory and was in a "public common room at his apartment complex," not Strong's apartment itself.
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" Police also "informed the caller that the student who had been in the common room was an authorized resident who had every right to be there.
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"We rented my apartment's common room, made the food and decorations ourselves, wrote our own vows, and wore what was in our closet already." http://thecatwhisperer.tumblr.
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The cups are the perfect size for being transported to a dorm common room or squeezed onto a crowded desk during an all-night cram session.
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In May, a white Yale graduate student named Sarah Braasch called the police on fellow student Lolade Siyonbola after seeing Siyonbola napping in a common room.
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These include the "Courtiers in a Rose Garden" medieval tapestry, the Patio from the Castle of Vélez Blanco and a chamber resembling a Hogwarts common room.
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WORST: Ändlös Candlestick - $6I can't decide if this belongs in the apartment of an obsessed Hamilton fan or maybe some IKEA-influenced redesign of Slytherin's common room.
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What happened at Yale According to Siyonbola, she was working on a paper in the Hall of Graduate Studies when she fell asleep in a common room.
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These spots — a park and a record store in Harlem, and the common room of an apartment building in the Bronx — helped spark the hip-hop movement.
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The D.A. said their actions included locking Williams in his room, nicknaming him "three-fifths" and "fraction," and putting up a Confederate flag in the common room.
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She sat on a worn sofa in the shelter's common room, wearing sweatpants and a thin sweater and plastic flip-flops, her face gaunt beneath tight braids.
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I mainly stressed out about how to squeeze in this ridiculous Trinidad idea, or sat in Mango Beach Inn's lovely common room overlooking the bay and wrote.
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Mr. Horton was caught by Officer Michael Stamp at Groveland carrying a bowl of hot water from the microwave for coffee after the common room had closed.
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After their junior year, they took it down but saved it, to once again display the shriveled husk in pride of place above the common room couch.
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On a sheet of paper taped to the wall of the common room were the Ten Commandments of the house ("No fighting"; "No food for lazy mon").
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The swimming pool was set in a quadrangle, with the Junior House common room at one end and, at the other, the Middle and Senior House dormitories.
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The officers, who left their cars parked illegally outside, came in and out of the bar all evening, seemingly using it as a kind of common room.
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Paul Gagner's work will be included in the exhibition Common Room, running September 7–October 16 at Lesley Heller Workspace (54 Orchard Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan).
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Upon arrival, guests are sorted into Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw, and sit in a common room set up like the Great Hall that's covered in Hogwarts emblems.
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And he's got another record to add to that trophy case in the Gryffindor common room thanks to a record-breaking performance at Britain's Olivier Awards on Sunday.
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This is the way I've been feeling about Future Unfolding, a game I saw entirely by chance in the common room of the hostel at GDC this year.
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She said she has eaten in the common room before and has keycard access because she is teaching chemistry to high school girls at the college this summer.
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As the men put together the set, each screw and bolt used to build it — the common room of a mental institution — had to be cataloged and tracked.
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From the Room of Requirement to the Gryffindor common room, I read about the pair doing every possible dirty thing in every nook and cranny of the castle.
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A black Yale University student was interrogated by campus police officers after a white student reported her for sleeping in her dormitory common room, the Yale Daily News reported.
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Officers interrogated Lolade Siyonbola, a black graduate student at Yale, early Tuesday after a white student found her sleeping in a common room of their dorm and called police.
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Aside from the rare occasions on which their spot is usurped, Oforiwaa's food stall stands in the common room every week with a colourful parade of vegetable-based dishes.
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The juniors jostled on the benches in their common room, pushing and shoving and whistling, while, on our balconies in Middle House, we clutched our crotches in mock agony.
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In yet another infuriating episode of Living While Black, a white Yale University student called campus police on Black graduate student Lolade Siyonbola for napping in her dorm's common room.
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In a video posted to be Facebook, the campus police officer who responded to the call can be heard asking the student what she was doing in the common room.
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In a similar incident in May, a black Yale University student was interrogated by campus police officers after a white student reported her for sleeping in her dormitory common room.
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Yet, every afternoon, half a dozen inmates gather around a table in the common room to join forces against imaginary foes in a cooperative game of Dungeons and Dragons (1974).
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Take, for example, the story of Lolade Siyonbola, a black graduate student at Yale who woke from a nap in a dorm common room in May to questions from police.
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A black Yale student was taking a nap in a common room in her dorm earlier this week when a white student saw her sleeping and decided to call the police.
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Siyonbola and the officers, who soon were joined by two more officers, confirmed that Jean-Louis was a Yale student whom Siyonbola had invited to the common room, the post states.
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Over the weekend, photographs emerged online of Mr. Weinstein sitting in what seemed to be a common room at Bellevue, watching television in an armchair with a wheelchair parked beside him.
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In May of that year, a white Yale student used 911 to summon police because a black student was napping in her dorm's common room; she was a black Yale graduate student.
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One time, I walked by his cell while he was meditating and kicked the door, so Rory chased me around the common room for a while because he was so pissed off.
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Studio museum, which houses sets from the Harry Potter films (like the Gryffindor common room and the Forbidden Forest), see some of the original costumes, and dine on a three-course meal.
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The nurse unlocked the door, and my friends showed their backpacks and bags, and signed in, and then we all visited, as my Tennessee relatives used to say, in the common room.
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Yale University says it is reviewing an incident in which a black student was questioned by campus police officers after a white student reported her for sleeping in her dormitory common room.
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Students have also loudly decried more recent racially tinged incidents, such as when a white graduate student called the police in May on a black student for napping in a common room.
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Lolade Siyonbola, a black Yale graduate student, was napping in her dorm's common room when a white woman came upon her, told Ms. Siyonbola she couldn't sleep there and called the police.
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Would the spell take care of the waste while it was coming out of them or would there be a few moments when there's just a puddle of pee in the common room?
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Police repeatedly asked a black Yale University student to prove that she attended the university after a white student called the cops on her for napping in the common room of her dorm.
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Washington (CNN)Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, watched former special counsel Robert Mueller's highly anticipated testimony Wednesday in a packed common room of inmates a federal prison in New York.
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Lolade Siyonbola, a graduate student at the university, said that a white graduate student entered a common room in Yale's Hall of Graduate Studies where she had fallen asleep working on a paper.
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The modest lobby leads to the Trade Room, a huge common room with a soaring ceiling, big arched windows, pink Tennessee granite, original brass hardware, low-slung modern sofas and a long bar.
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Students are calling for Yale University to expel Sarah Braasch, the white student who called campus police on Lolade Siyonbola after she committed the unforgivable crime of napping in her own dormitory's common room.
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This refurbished HP laptop features a 360-degree hinge that lets you use it in a variety of ways, whether that's presenting a Powerpoint in class or browsing social media in the common room.
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Samantha White and some of the other Black students at the elite (and fictional) Winchester University are gathering in a common room for "'Defamation Wednesdays," a communal watch party for a popular political drama.
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In the late 60s and 70s, as these guys were touring, if you were in college, you could hear Van der Graaf Generator, this extremely ornate pop music, coming out of the common room.
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I was visiting my boyfriend at his university, and as I took the call I stood over by the window in the common room of his dorm suite and looked out at the trees.
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"In France after that massive heatwave (in 2003), now all nursing homes or places where there are a lot of vulnerable people have to have at least a common room with air conditioning," he said.
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Kanoute said she was eating lunch and reading a book in a common room on campus that requires keycard access when she noticed a white man and a white woman pacing outside the room's entrance.
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The quakes unnerved the guests, who packed their bags and convened with the hotel staff in a common room with a large fireplace, awaiting snowplows to clear the roads so that they could all leave.
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Sure, the taupe-colored walls and desolate hallways of a converted convent—"quiet, safe, clean, and comfortable"—might initially present themselves as the perfect post-bender remedy, but after a while, you may begin to feel your sense of calm give way to existential dread because the kitchen isn't really a kitchen, but a hot plate and a microwave, and the common room isn't really a common room, but a small nook furnished with two motorhome chairs and a vase full of old licorice.
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During late college nights, when my friends and I were too drunk to go to sleep and too tired to continue the night, we'd pile onto dingy common room couches and laugh to "Potion Seller" together.
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The development comes days after The Yale Daily News reported that graduate student Lolade Siyonbola said a white student told her to leave the common room, saying she was not supposed to be in the area.
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At an Ivy League university, where black people have so long toiled for admission, a fellow student called police because there was a black woman -- a graduate student -- napping in the common room of her own dorm.
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When Congress comes back from its recess this week, Ms. Pingree said she and the other House Democrats who live in her Washington high rise planned on having a debate watch party in the building's common room.
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Its open layout lends itself to socializing, and a common room in the lobby, outfitted with a few tables and a coffee machine, brings guests together in the mornings for breakfast and in the evenings to chat.
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Whether it was getting ice cream at a small corner store, or playing foosball in a common room, we retraced the familiar and experimented with the new to make the most of what little time we had left.
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In a nod to that tradition, Sällskap, rolling out in Ikea stores this month, incorporates pieces that could work in any room in the house, but are really meant for a kind of common room for the whole family.
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I recall one of my fellow graduate students in London, an avowed Maoist, bursting into the college's common room to announce that in China mathematics teachers were now being sent to the land to labour along with the peasants.
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So the day after her lackluster livestream experience, Kamali hired a magician and a clown to put on a makeshift carnival -- complete with a cotton candy machine, Purim music, and limbo -- inside the common room in her apartment complex.
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Someone made a reference to an Arnold Palmer drink, and I froze as memories transported me back to the cold, common room where I stared sleeplessly at the TV in a drug-induced haze, watching the news about Mr. Palmer's passing.
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Occupation: Video ProducerIndustry: Media & AdvertisingAge: 245Location: SingaporeSalary: $27,205Paycheck (Once A Month): $25.44,28.18 before deduction of Central Provident Fund (our form of Roth IRA) Monthly ExpensesHousing Costs: $217.26 for a common room in a three-room flat, utilities and internet included.
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WATCH THIS: Harry Potter Hottie Matthew Lewis Marries Girlfriend Angela Jones in Italy The Gryffindor common room and the Weasley's kitchen from The Burrow will be available for patrons to enjoy during the after-hours tour of the studio lot.
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Visitors can experience first-hand what life at wizarding school Hogwarts is like by wandering through the Gryffindor's common room, strolling through the so-called Forbidden Forest or just by sitting in gamekeeper Hagrids' huge chair in the rustic-style hut.
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Reneson Jean-Louis this week shared on Facebook his recollection of the February encounter, which unfolded after he arrived at the dorm to meet with Lolade Siyonbola, the graduate student who was reported early Tuesday for sleeping in a common room.
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I think I still believed that somehow my sex life would be the talk of the common room the next day, and that the man I had slept with would be laughing about it in a corner with his mates.
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In what is becoming an all-too familiar episode, a black Yale University graduate student was interrogated by campus police officers early Tuesday after a white student found her sleeping in a common room of their dorm and called police.
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Among the best, "Five children in a common room, N.J., 215" shows four children (and the leg of another), each lost in a separate world; one has his face on the floor and his body raised in a 157-degree angle.
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"When it starts getting cold out, I'm ready to come in for help," she told me in a psych-ward common room, where I was permitted to take notes only in pencil, as my pen was deemed a possible suicide tool.
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Since then, there have been reports of similar encounters like a white student at Yale who called campus police on a black graduate student who was napping in her dorm's common room and the questioning of black Airbnb guests in California.
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As an example of such erasure, the report cites Yale's decision in the 1980s to alter a stained-glass window in a Calhoun common room, replacing the image of a slave in shackles kneeling at Calhoun's feet with panes showing clouds.
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I'd listened to Kid A in my headphones in the sixth form common room and on my walks home from school, goosebumping out of my skin as I walked past the local swimming pool and having no one to share it with.
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Once you've checked out your common room, you can attend classes, like Charms with Professor Flitwick or Potions with Professor Snape, picking up illumination charms or recipes for Wiggenweld potion, and earning House Points for good work and losing them for mess-ups.
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The past several weeks have seen a wave of noteworthy racial profiling incidents where white people have called police on people of color for innocuous actions like mowing a neighbor's lawn and taking a nap in a college residence hall's common room.
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The "interlopers" may simply want to visit their condo's swimming pool, something white people typically do without a second thought, or take a nap in a student dorm common room, make a purchase in an upscale store, or drive a "nice" car.
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The episode comes after other cases of the police being called on black people for minor or nonexistent transgressions, such as taking a nap in a Yale common room or sitting down and asking to use the restroom in a Starbucks without buying anything.
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The LGBT+ group Mawjoudin has stopped giving face-to-face counselling services and closed the common room at its centre in the capital Tunis where people usually spend their free time or meet with friends in a safe setting, away from the public eye.
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It's been converted from an old warehouse and inside, the building has a very industrial look, with lots of metal pipes, exposed brick, and shiny wooden floors, plus a big common room area downstairs with some very comfortable-looking sofas and musical instruments dotted around.
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Instead, it has an airy common room with a large wooden dining table, a well-equipped communal kitchen and a library that includes Audubon guides to local foliage alongside works by Don DeLillo and Henry David Thoreau, a Ouija board and a record player.
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Our first day together, we shared a blanket on the couch in the common room, called ourselves feral shelter cats ("It's a metaphor," we assured the nurses), applied mental health criteria to saints and celebrities, and laughed until we forgot why we were laughing.
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"Holding my roommates' hands in our common room, I cried because there was no time to cry — because I wanted to have pure joy, just joy, without feeling the desperation and loss that had been twisted into our time remaining together on campus," Chung wrote.
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A black graduate student at Yale who fell asleep in her dorm's common room said she had a disturbing awakening this week when a white student flipped on the lights, told her she had no right to sleep there and called the campus police.
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What is driving the surge of incidents in which white people have called the police to report black people who are simply going about their business — hanging out at Starbucks, eating lunch in a "common room" at Smith College, barbecuing in a public park?
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I first saw them in early 2005, in a small upstairs venue called Fez Club—bottles and cans only at the bar, a no-frills dark room sort of place—and it transported me back into the confines of my sixth-form common room.
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After feasting in the Great Hall, guests will make their way through the Studio Tour, visiting memorable sites like the Gryffindor Common Room, Dumbledore's Office, The Burrow, and the Forbidden Forest before ending up with a drink on Platform 9 ¾, beside the original Hogwarts Express Locomotive.
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In addition to the Great Hall, the studio will also give the Gryffindor Common Room and Boys' Dormitory, where Ron and Harry lived, a magical makeover, decorating the space with original props such as handmade Christmas cards created by the cast members during the film's production.
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Take, for example, the story of Lolade Siyonbola, a black graduate student at Yale who woke from a nap in a dorm common room only to be approached by police after a white classmate called 911, claiming that she wasn't sure if Siyonbola belonged in the dorm.
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Walk into the hectic common room of SOAS—London's School of Oriental and African Studies—on a Wednesday lunchtime, and you'll find the familiar sight of Maame Oforiwaa and her friend wheeling plates of fresh roasted carrot or beetroot dip under the nostrils of hungry students.
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In the spring of 28503, my junior year at Yale College, a classmate of mine who would be called gay today, but back then much worse words were used, walked past a group of us sitting in the Davenport College common room after dinner, shooting the breeze.
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As word of the skirmish spread, it added fuel to the national conversation about white people calling the police on black people for seemingly trivial reasons, including waiting in Starbucks, working as a home inspector, shopping at Nordstrom Rack and sleeping in an Ivy League dorm common room.
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It has a fun, common room-style feel to it as drivers moan-laugh about awkward passengers and stub out cigarettes in ashtrays made from old Coke and Red Bull cans (My visit here has taken place just before the Beijing smoking ban has kicked in on June 1).
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They cited as evidence recent highly publicized episodes, including one last month in which the police were called over a black graduate student napping in her dorm's common room at Yale University, or in April when a white woman complained that two African-American men were grilling in an Oakland, Calif.
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On the evenings that he chose not to be in the Prefects' Room or swooping down on boys smoking outside the library, he would sit in the main common room, frowning over a chessboard with a headless queen and two missing pawns, which had been replaced with fifty-cent coins.
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This columnist, though a few years younger than Mr Green, remembers seeing him in Balliol College Junior Common Room looking and sounding almost the same as he does today, a member of that strange breed of politicians, of which William Hague is the archetype, who arrive at university fully formed as middle-aged fogies.
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Sunday's demonstrations and the opposing rallies took place against a backdrop of heightened racial tensions in the US. Recent months have seen a series of high-profile incidents in which police were called on people of color for innocuous acts, like napping in a dormitory common room, having a barbecue and going to the pool.
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The episode was the latest involving white people who are captured on video either confronting or calling the police on black people going about their everyday lives, including waiting in Starbucks, working as a home inspector, shopping at Nordstrom Rack, sleeping in an Ivy League dorm common room and barbecuing in a public park.
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And then they go home, sometimes via a bland happy hour full of other useless suits, to their very nice apartments—$2,500 a month for a one-bedroom without sufficient counter space to chop an onion, but it has a really nice common room with a ping-pong table—and reflect: What a good day's work.
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Among the encounters: a white apartment complex manager who called the police on a black man wearing socks in the complex's pool; a white woman who called the police on a 8-year-old black girl for selling water; and a white Yale student who called the police on a black graduate student who had fallen asleep in her dorm's common room.
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Over the past year, black men, women, and children have been challenged, accosted, or reported to police by people for such innocuous actions as using a phone in a hotel lobby, having a picnic, trying to cash a check at a bank, babysitting white children, mowing lawns, selling water, eating at Subway, sleeping in a college common room, and entering their own apartment buildings.
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PEN America's partial endorsement of that concept may come as a surprise: The group describes the creation of "small, self-selected groups united by shared views," which could be anything from a group of five Iranian-born students kicking around stories from back home in a dormitory common room to a chapter of the Hillel club, which on some campuses consist of hundreds of Jewish students as members.
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"Gilmore Girls is the only show I've ever had such a strong feeling for, so when I saw that they were [doing a fan festival], I immediately texted my best friend Ashley, and was like 'We're purchasing tickets right now,'" says Christina Tassi, 23, who says she bonded with her friend during their freshman year at the University of New Haven while watching Gilmore Girls DVDs in the common room of their dorm.
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Using a phone in a hotel lobby, trying to cash a check at a bank, babysitting white children, mowing lawns, selling water, eating at Subway, sleeping in a college common room, entering their own apartment buildings — this past year has brought us countless stories of black men, women, and children who were trying to go about their daily lives only to be interrupted by a stranger challenging their presence, challenges that often culminated in interactions with the police.
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Using a phone in a hotel lobby, trying to cash a check at a bank, babysitting white children, mowing lawns, selling water, eating at Subway, sleeping in a college common room, and entering their own apartment buildings: There have been countless stories in the past year of black men, women, and children who were trying to go about their daily lives only to be interrupted by a (usually white) stranger challenging their presence — challenges that often culminate in interaction with the police.
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From using a phone in a hotel lobby, trying to cash a check at a bank, to babysitting white children, mowing lawns, selling water, eating at Subway, sleeping in a college common room, and entering their own apartment buildings, this past year has brought us countless stories of black men, women, and children who were trying to go about their daily lives only to be interrupted by a stranger challenging their presence, challenges that often culminated in interaction with the police.
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