In the spring of 1980, with high interest rates holding back housing starts, U.S. builders launched a letter-writing campaign aimed at Congress. Robert F. Drinan, SJ, ’42, former dean of Boston College’s Law School, was serving as a representative from Massachusetts (1971–81). He received this message, one of many sent to congressmen on pieces of two-by-four: “Let’s do something about the crisis in the Housing Industry. You people are destroying the American Dream!! There is a definite need for housing. Where will our children live?” The letter resides in a collection of Drinan’s papers and other materials at the Burns Archives.