*Ben Pai is a proud 1987 Duke Graduate* I arrived on Duke’s campus in the fall of 1983. I almost wrote “summer” because it was hot as Hades when I got there. My freshman dorm was called Wannamaker, a cinder block structure on West Campus with no air conditioning. My roommate, Patrick Skinner, and I lived on the third floor, in room 318. It felt like the heat bounced off the concrete straight up to our room. I remember making my bed the first day and sleeping on top of the bedspread for a month straight. I also recall leaving a chocolate bar out on my desk one day and finding it later melted, j…