Each fall, the
Office of Sustainability transforms 10 Cleaveland Street into the Freecycle—a maze of rooms filled with castoffs from last spring’s move-out (which is dubbed the great Give and Go). Microwaves, lamps, rugs, vacuums, kitchen supplies, and all manner of dorm-room essentials wait within the clapboard house for a new owner.
The stockpile comes from a year-end ritual, when students move off campus and leave behind what they don't need for their next stage in life. In May, a team of staff and students swoop in to collect and sort the discarded items. (What doesn't get used for Freecycle is donated locally.) By June, when summer residents move onto campus, the goods are displayed throughout the house, ready for browsing.
While summer residents, Geoffrey Canada Scholars, and international students get first dibs since they're on campus first, the big rush happens during orientation, when first-years and transfer students sign up for 15-minute slots to pick three items for their new rooms. Once they’re done, upperclass students can come in to claim the rest.
