A couple things struck me as odd in this Contra Costa Times article about freshman moving in to the dorms.

"I feel nervous and excited," said Tanisha Patel of Los Angeles, who moved into a suite Sunday with a cousin and a third woman. "We're so far from home."

It seems like they picked the wrong girl to add this sentiment to the article. LA is 5-6 hours away by car or a 40 dollar flight on Southwest. Couldn't the reporter have found someone from out of state to talk about how far away from home he or she was?

"It's scary," Pravina Patel said, picking listlessly at a swab of guacamole with a nacho chip and dropping it back on her plate.

A "swab" of guacamole?!

"Anything that hinders their academic performance, we'll expedite," said RCC Justin Wong.

"Expedite" means to "speed up the progress of". If my Residential Computing Center worker told me he would speed up those things that hinder my academic performance, I would be a little worried.

But moments later, having searched in vain for an elevator, [Lenny] Garfinkel said, "The nostalgia's getting thin," as he schlepped a computer monitor up a flight of stairs to his son's new home.

It's kind of cute that in describing the actions of a father with a rather Jewish name, the writer chose to use a little Yiddish slang.
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