title: Chasing Aleck: the story of a dorm.
abstract: A student raised a hand in class and asked, "Why is this dorm named after Alexander Graham Bell?" On a deaf campus, this was a loaded question. Bell was an oralist, opposed to sign language. He was a eugenicist, opposed to deaf marriages. Indeed, the more I thought about it, the better this question got. Why did the school name a dormin after him? Unfortunately, I hadn't the foggiest idea. With apologies to that student, I offer this article as a belated answer.
authors.affiliation: Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA.
authors.forename: R A R
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Edwards
mesh_terms: D003638:Deafness / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology; D005053:Eugenics / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006798:Housing; D009518:New York; D011287:Prejudice; D012574:Schools / Q000266:history; D014481:United States