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Smith: Aren’t students supposed to live in dingy hovels?

At an unusual garage sale this week, the musty smell of old wood and sight of truly ugly plaid upholstery took me right back to my student apartment days.

Five old homes that have housed generations of students are going the way of horses and buggies. So Sonya Newenhouse and her Madison Environmental Group were hired by Great Dane Development to hold a “deconstruction sale” in the 400 block of West Gorham Street.