We had a sleeping porch when I pledged but voted to turn it into bedrooms before I moved into the house my sophomore year. My freshman year I used to sleep in the porch after hanging out at the house sometimes. It was a great place to nap or study b/c of the 24 hour quiet hours. We didn't keep ours cold b/c we didn't have air conditioning in the house (although we definitely could have used it).

Actually now that I'm reading mroe about it, that doesn't sound all that bad. Especially considering that since I'm an only child I've had a difficult time being in a dorm room and having to be accustomed to noise and light. I used to not be able to go to sleep unless there was complete silence, and even now I wake up if my roomie is typing on her computer or if she gets out of bed... I'm a veeerrrry light sleeper. Oh well, our houses are a couple years away and we've already voted on the way for everything to be arraganged even though we haven't completley tallied the votes.

I was in Pullman too!
 

I also went to school in Pullman, it can get COLD!!! But the warmth of electric blankets and flannel PJs keep you warm. We had rooms with our closets and desks and one bed in the room. You slept there if you were sick or were keeping other up - like snoring.

Again, I LOVED IT! It is only cold getting into bed but you fall asleep easily... The best nights sleep ever!:D

Here at the UA almost all the 12 houses have sleeping porches. Only Alpha Chi, AEPhi, and DG don't.

Calling them porches always confuses people... hee hee hee. They're not outside, they're very much inside. They're just a big cold dark room full of bunkbeds.

Cold Airs
 

At Iowa State, the cold air is really common, and most of the houses here have cold air sleeping arrangement. Our house has one as well, and I love it! Especially in the winter time, it is extremely cold (Iowa ...), but once you cuddle up under your blankets (I have one sleeping bag and two blankets), you feel like really protected and safe. Warmth of the pillow :D

Even though I've read everyone's great experiences, I couldn't imagine such a sleeping situation!! I think there's only one house here that may have that situation, but I'm not familiar with them. Personally, I like having rooms with beds and desks, but, I've never seen sleeping porches, so who knows! Strange though...

How do guys in fraternities feel about the "cold dorms"?

I know a number of houses here at IU have them (my chapter doesnt). Alumni tend to like them because they greatly improve the house's capacity.

Younger guys (i.e. new initiates who are usually forced to live in them) tend to not like them because of lack of privacy and personal space.

Other guys tend to find the idea of sleeping in a large room with 20+ other guys...well gay.

I personally wouldnt mind a cold dorm if it increases the capacity and manpower of my house. Also, I have 2 roommates now and its a lot of fun. It's been like 8 months of summer camp!

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I was picturing all these poor sorority sisters sleeping outdoors on a porch with their teeth chattering. I went to school in upstate NY so this could lead to frostbite. :p

LMAO! Sorry that is a similar image to what I had b4 it was explained & I though it was funny. :D

I've had people ask what we do when it rains... "Don't all your beds get wet??" Hee hee hee... :)

Another thread to bump, just because it's interesting!

At IU, like a couple people said, most of the houses do have the cold dorm/warm dorm arrangement. Only AEPhi, Chi Omega, Delta Zeta, and ZTA don't (that I know of). Some of the houses do have it where you can either sleep in your room or in the cold dorm (for example, Delta Gamma, Tri Delt and AXiD)...they'll have, say, three to a room and two beds or something. (yes, I asked about this when I rushed! :D) ADPi and AOPi's new house weren't built back then (ADPi's was being built) so I don't know about those...maybe someone from IU can enlighten me. (the old AOPi house had the cold dorm/warm dorm thing)

A lot of girls seem to love it but I know it would have driven me nuts!

Sorry, While I sleep with the Heat turned down and did sleep in a dungeon bunk room as a Pledge from another Fraternity other than mine, it may have been fun, But, it is different!:)

At the end of our old house that leaked like a sieve from the weather, it was not much fun for having a House Corp. meeting in the Ligon Room where we all wore coats and started snowing like hell outside!:( This is how all of the brothers werre as did not have enough money to pay the bills!

While it may have brought them together, it is tuff on Recruitment for PNM!:o :(

House is now gone!

I hope We can get a new one built starting next year!;)

At Ole Miss, our house had separate rooms that had two beds/closets/desks, etc.

I may be wrong, but I believe that all of the houses were like this. I had never heard of "cold-air rooms/porches."

Is this a mid-western thing? It seems like a lot of places around here do it. Just a question.