Back when I was a Felding, we complained all right. But it didn't stop the majority of us from getting involved. And hell, getting backrubs from the non-creepy guys was half the fun of the SCA! I wonder if we just had a better network back then of people who'd tell us, "You know, if that creep's bugging you, I'll save you."

As for getting off campus, maybe my Felding years were unusual, but we seemed to be fleeing campus all the time. Our main difficulty was transportation. Wellesley students pretty much all live on campus, so no one has a car. Could some of the problems with insularity be transportation issues? We seemed to do pretty well with rides, but I don't know if the atmosphere of providing rides for the carless still prevails in Carolingia.