1970-71 / Rome Center Campus: The view out my window, which included the wonderfully woodsy backside of the campus and a multi-layered vista of Italian pines that grew out of both nearby and distant rolling hills. And behind it all stood the southern Appenine Mountains. This isn’t campus housing, I thought, it’s la dolce vita!
1970-71 / Rome Center Campus: That's me, with an early Beatles haircut, pointing to the approximate location of the Rome Center on my European wall map.
The Loyola University of Chicago Rome Center campus/1970: My desktop bearing an infamous Italian beer I liberated from a vending machine in the Villa basement. There was no drinking age limit in Europe. But it didn't matter to me because I was already 22 years old.
