"Private" Dorms-regional self-segregation?

MilwDad
Thu, 10 May 2007 11:14:41 +0000

The cultural unawareness of east coast kids coming to UW is nothing new. When my wife was a freshman at UW in the mid-70s she was asked by virtually every kid from the east that she met for the first time whether she had grown up on a farm. There was mild surprise and even some muted disappointment when she revealed she was a city kid.

The common east coast freshman question most likely to get squeals of laughter from Wisconsin kids, however, is whether you can see across Lake Michigan.

As for the private dorms at Madison they are heavily “coastie,” but there are plenty of kids from the east coast who live in the regular school dorms, too.