Monthly Archives: October 2025

I first met Ras when I became a freshman at the University of Minnesota, Morris in the fall of 1962. We hit it off immediately. He and his roommate lived neighbors to me in Junior Hall, a dorm that was filled with wide-eyed freshman boys who were experiencing their first years of independence. That explains why the toilet in the bathroom suddenly exploded after an unnamed student dropped a lighted cherry bomb into the flushing water. Frequently the dorm silence…..

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