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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBrett Kavanaugh's Former Roommate Describes Their Debauched Dorm at Yale
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Especially disgusting was the shared bathroom, which was always covered in vomit. Kavanaugh and his crowd, whom Winter characterizes as loud, obnoxious frat boy-like drunks were the hardest drinkers on campus even back then, when hard drinking did not hold the stigma it does today. In a statement earlier this week, Roche recalled Kavanaugh frequently drinking excessively and becoming incoherently drunk, and Winter corroborates that recollection. There was a lot of vomit in the bathroom. No one ever cleaned it up. It was disgusting. It wasnt incidental. It wasnt, Oh, this weekend someone puked in the bathroom. People were constantly puking in the bathroom. Constantly. Lori Adams, a retired psychiatrist in Underhill, Vermont, was a friend of Winters at Yale. I remember, she says, that you couldnt use the bathroom because his roommates vomited all over the floor and didnt clean it up. (Winter clarifies that Roche wasnt much of a drinker and that although he himself drank a fair amount during freshman year, he very rarely drank to the point of throwing up.)
The social dynamic within the triple was nonexistent to the point that Winter felt uncomfortable. From the start, Winter and Kavanaugh barely acknowledged one anothers existence. He remembers no conversation between them. Kubovy, still in high school at the time, sometimes visited Winters dorm room. Its weird never saying hello to one of your two roommates, he says, in retrospect. (Several years later, Dana How lived next door to Kavanaugh, and his recollection is similar. Kavanaugh and his roommates didnt talk to anybody, How remembers. They were completely antisocial. The door was closed. These guys were completely disconnected.)
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The fraternity brothers at Delta Kappa Epsilon to which Kavanaugh pledged could be heard in the streets at night chanting. There was always more than a strong whiff of sexual violence hanging over the Dekes all the time, says Garman. Dana How recalls consciously deciding to stay away from one of Kavanaughs frat brothers he cant now remember the reason why.
Another person, who arrived at Yale from a working-class background, remembers encountering the upper levels of the social hierarchy for the first time and understanding them as dangerous. I remember thinking, Oh, youve got to be really careful around these people. I saw it through a class lens. I dont want to be somebodys little mouse. I dont want to be somebody who gets eaten. Looking back, I perceived things as dangers rather than, Oh, fuck. This is crazy. Back then, it was sort of a game where there had to be some way to play it where you werent a victim.
The social dynamic within the triple was nonexistent to the point that Winter felt uncomfortable. From the start, Winter and Kavanaugh barely acknowledged one anothers existence. He remembers no conversation between them. Kubovy, still in high school at the time, sometimes visited Winters dorm room. Its weird never saying hello to one of your two roommates, he says, in retrospect. (Several years later, Dana How lived next door to Kavanaugh, and his recollection is similar. Kavanaugh and his roommates didnt talk to anybody, How remembers. They were completely antisocial. The door was closed. These guys were completely disconnected.)
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The fraternity brothers at Delta Kappa Epsilon to which Kavanaugh pledged could be heard in the streets at night chanting. There was always more than a strong whiff of sexual violence hanging over the Dekes all the time, says Garman. Dana How recalls consciously deciding to stay away from one of Kavanaughs frat brothers he cant now remember the reason why.
Another person, who arrived at Yale from a working-class background, remembers encountering the upper levels of the social hierarchy for the first time and understanding them as dangerous. I remember thinking, Oh, youve got to be really careful around these people. I saw it through a class lens. I dont want to be somebodys little mouse. I dont want to be somebody who gets eaten. Looking back, I perceived things as dangers rather than, Oh, fuck. This is crazy. Back then, it was sort of a game where there had to be some way to play it where you werent a victim.
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Brett Kavanaugh's Former Roommate Describes Their Debauched Dorm at Yale (Original Post)
kstewart33
Sep 2018
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DemoTex
(25,392 posts)1. Well, the old saying comes to mind ..
"If you can't be a Greek, be a Deke."
(Apologies to Trof!)