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was supposed to encourage students to
step out of their comfort zones. Mike
was the only Asian assigned to a rowdy
group, some of whom streaked naked
down a San Francisco street and crossdressed
in a local department store during
the hunt. One girl went to a Victoria’s
Secret display and stripped down to
her underwear. As Mike recounted
these details, I thought he was going to
tell me that his group had been over
the top, inappropriate. But he wasn’t
critical of the other students. He was
critical of himself.
“When people do things like that,
there’s a moment where I feel uncomfortable
with it. It shows my own limits.
Sometimes I feel like they’re better
than I am.”
Mike was getting similar messages
from his professors. A few weeks after
the orientation event, his freshman
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