“Right now, we’re down to microwaves and dorm refrigerators,” Thomas Ching, the director of facilities, told a visitor whose own college days were decades in the rearview, as three young men carried mini fridges out the door. Ching’s inventory turned out to be not quite up to date: the last twenty-three (of nearly two hundred) microwaves had been claimed earlier that morning. And there was a smattering of other items, which the visitor, fancying himself an amateur academic archeologist, thought worth noting.journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter