Boston U. had similar rules. There were very strict guest rules (if the person didn't live in the dorm they had to be out by midnight), and it took a few days to clear any out-of-town guests. If you forgot your ID, there was a chance you couldn't get back into your dorm that night.

Acutally, just about every university had those rules.

It was all a part of "In Loco Parentis."

Another rule (as silly as it sounds in print) was that on certain "visitation" times, if members of the opposite sex were in a dorm room, each had to have at least one foot on the floor.

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When I was in school, WE made our sorority suite women only from 11pm to 6am during Finals. From there, we'd invite all of the other sorority women up for an exactly one hour study break (no men allowed) every night.

It made for good Panhellenic spirit!

i like this idea!!! Different campus groups sponsor study breaks around finals time (I think A Phi A is doing it tonight, actually), its always nice to see a high greek turnout. The greek 1:30 am doughnut runs are quite good as well.

Yes that Natalee didn't know what she was doing.

She was an innocent lamb.

She only drank like a pro and a video of her blowing a Dutch dude in Aruba is widely available on uselessjunk.com - such an innocent rose.

-Rudey
--Whether or not she knew better, she's no longer here...strange how that works isn't it?

Post more pictures of the boat. It looks hot.

-Rudey

I agree with you. ;)

The fact that parents would sue anybody if their adult children screw up is outrageous.

If I may paraphrase your signature, valkyrie, I find such parents insufferable! What really angers me is that it doesn't stop them from doing it - so the whole greek system AND dorms suffer because of it.


Phoenix Azul - we did that each Finals. It started out as just a "hey, stop up at 11 for coffee or cocoa, if you need a study break," and became a major event. It's one of my best memories of college! Especially a certain night that got a little out of control... :D

ETA: We made the break women only, because most of us were in abbreviated clothing or night clothes, etc.

Don't assume they are all technically adults. I was only 17 when I started college, not legally an adult.

Our rules were no guys upstairs after 10:00 (might be later on weekends).

Whether somebody is legally an adult or not, by the time she goes off to college, she should be capable of functioning as a reasonable human and if she isn't, it's really too late for her parents to sue if she does something stupid.

natalie holloway was 17, on a freaking UNSUPERVISED trip to Aruba with friends her age. what parent lets their underage daughter travel out of the country UNSUPERVISED? not to sound insensitive, but did her parents expect 100% safety? (not that she deserved it, but i get really POed re: this case. her parents are just as responsible as she and her friends were)

a little different than 18-21 year-old girls/women living on a (hopefully) security-protected campus.

i've only lived in co-ed housing with NO visitation rules/nighttime curfews (our strictest rule is: no overnight guests more than 3 nights in a row, which is nothing compared to what im hearing).

even though our school seems to be lax with these dorm rules, our school (and staff) understands that 18-21 year olds are on a continuum of adultness and don't always know what is best in protecting themselves. however, if you are at a school like NYU, you better learn it quick--this city aint for no punks.

if someone is clearly drunk or seems hazardous in anyway, they are not allowed to be signed into the building. repeat offenders are PNG'd from the building (meaning they are legally bound by that law and can be arrested for stepping foot in the building).

How is a school sponsered trip with chaperones an unsupervised trip?

You didn't have a guest limit? At my alma mater, we weren't allowed to have more than 2 guests per roommate (so even when I had a huge single room (that used to be a double), I wasn't allowed to have 3+ guests). That included people who lived in your building. We also weren't allowed to have overnight guests for more than 3 days nor were we allowed to have beer bottles if we were legal (though wine and spirit bottles were allowed).

it was an "unofficial" school trip. okay, there were seven "chaperones," and that is debatable, either put in quotes, or questioned by news coverage. which leads me to believe it wasn't as supervised as it couldve been. and come on, 7 chaperones for 125 students? thats around 17 students per chaperone for an overseas trip.

EVERYONE i know who's gone on an "unofficial" school trip is doing so because:

1. the trip the school is providing is corny or unaffordable,
2. the school isnt offering a trip
3. the trip being provided is SUPERVISED and therefore will not have the leeway to do whatever they please.

(i say this with common sense and being a former senior class president.)

(p.s. let's not let this thread get off-track and then shut down, though i know it's my responsibility for bringing it back up)