Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Jackie Salzillo, 18, of North Haven, Conn., climbed Saturday up the three flights of stairs of West College on the Union College campus, preparing to lay eyes on the room that would be her new home for the next nine months and meet for the first time the classmate with whom she would share that small space....
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