If I feel the need to take off my pants, I take my pants off. Goldsmith, a 19-year-old who neither volunteered, nor was asked, where the body piercings might be, but did strip off his pants as he talked. ''I just sometimes feel the need to be nude I have body piercings to show off,'' said Jacob Z. The students soon learned that aside from residents who developed a habit of leaving the stall doors open while they showered in the mostly coed bathrooms, not that many people wanted to go naked. (Her cousin, somewhat later, called a reporter.) Her mother called the school and suggested that her daughter be allowed to move if she wanted. When she found out, Miss Reicher, 18, called her parents.
Miss Reicher, along with myriad high school seniors across the country, was eagerly awaiting a college acceptance letter. This story, about how one well-choreographed rite of passage from high school to college life went unexpectedly awry, actually started last year. ''Still, it is definitely the part that gets the most attention.'' ''The first week of school I would have said I live in The Naked Dorm, but now it would not be the first thing I say,'' Miss Reicher, a Wesleyan University freshman, said recently. Finding herself assigned to what is often dubbed The Naked Dorm came as a shock to Martha Reicher, but now she would rather not live anywhere else.