Spring Break
Generally, crashing in a living room denotes a rough night, a nice visit or a pity stay. In any case, crashing usually is usually free. Now imagine your first time getting to Drexel, a time that should be marked by excitement, and having to live in the "living room," or lounge, of your new dorm while paying the same exorbitant fees as students living in regular private dorm rooms.
The subject of MOVE is the third rail of Philadelphia politics. MOVE was, at its inception, nonviolent; its members got their livings in the wage-earning economy; it was drug-free. In the larger context of the 1960s and 1970s, it was one of many communal movements around the country that rejected a society regarded as poisoned by racism, imperialism and corporate-engendered consumerism.
