Dormitory arrangements

[33girl]

Tom Earp touched on this in his Harvard thread, and now I'm curious!

Whether you lived in them or not, what were the dorm living arrangements at your school? Was it:

-single sex dorms
-coed by floor
-coed by room
-or anything goes!

And what are the visitation policies like these days?

Sometimes I feel like I must be a dinosaur just cause I can't fathom having guys in the dorm room next to me...eeek! Coed by floor was fine thank you.

Housing at UHM pretty much sucked...that's why I moved back home after two years living there.

As far as housing goes... we have:

One all-female dorm (Kahawai)...a wellness hall.
The Hale Aloha Towers (4) ...coed by floor ...one designated a wellness hall... one designated a "Freshman Only" dorm
Gateway- suites, coed by room...designated for upperclassmen and grad students
One grad student apartment complex-coed by floor (kitchen equipped)
Two apartment complexes (Noelani and Wainani). Reserved for 3rd year+ students. Coed by room. Two wings of each of the apartments were designated wellness areas. (kitchen equipped)

Wellness halls are substance-free and quiet hours are enforced 24 hours.

Typically we are not allowed any overnight visitors. We're supposed to check in our visitors at the front desk...but no one ever does. When I lived in Noelani, I lived in a full house... me and 3 of my roommates...and each of our BFs. The football guys living next door were the sweetest guys! I liked hanging out with them than I did with my roommates!

[SATX*APhi]

Housing at St. Mary's University in San Antonio is okay, not the greatest. There are the freshman dorms that are co-ed by section. There is also a single room dorm which, of course, is co-ed by floor. Then there are the upperclassmen dorms, which are co-ed. I think they just stick whoever, wherever, as long as there isn't a girl and guy in the same room. What I am trying to say is that sexes are not divided by sections or floors. These dorms are the best on campus, but like I said above, are only for upperclassmen.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

My freshman year I lived in a double room on a floor that had mostly women except for one suite of men. My sophomore year I lived on a floor with only suites which were single sex. In other dorms if the rooms were doubles or in some cases triples, the floor was single sex. It was because of the bathroom. A suite contained its own bathroom.

[dzsaigirl]

The first school I went to had single-sex by floor for freshmen and co-ed for everyone else.

At the school I just graduated from, it is single sex by floor in two of the dorms and the rest is co-ed. They also have campus apartments that are sort of between dorm and apartment which are single sex by suite.

[KappaStargirl]

Dorm #1: substance free housing for Frosh through seniors. coed by floor

Dorm #2-3-4-5-6: Housing for all, coed by floor. Some nicer than others, of course. Dorms 1 and 6 have sinks in the rooms, very convenient

Dorm #7: Housing with singles, doubles, and 4-person suites from upperclassmen only. Usually layered, but women can live on the men's floor if they're living in one of the suites with a separate bathroom.

Dorm #8: converted fraternity house, now tiny singles, doubles, and two triples for women. The university has a much larger percentage of women than men

Other converted houses, theme houses, etc.

[lifesaver]

Where I was initiated:

About every mixture possible. And honestly, I dont remember much about it except; 1) when I moved in and flipped on the lights, the roaches scattered. 2) I woke up stinking every day. Soon realized it was my multi-fluid stained matress. Got a plastic matress zipper case to enclose it...problem solved. 3) our university handeled roomie matching with 1 question, "Do you smoke." Thats it. I get this big SOB whos first words to me were, "Well God Damn. Same Mother Fu*king room as last year. Shit." Nice to meet you too.

where I will graduate from:

One large, very nice dorm built in 86, completely coed. Private bathrooms. the other 2000 students on campus live in apartments 9, 7, and 5 years old repectively. Very nice by college standards. University has just drafted plans to build about 3000 more beds on campus (greeks included, yeah!) To include freshman only, grad student, themed and family.

[juniorgrrl]

At Tulane, the first school I went to, the dorms were either co-ed by floor or suite, or all female. I lived in a coed dorm and it was awful. The guys from the floor below us would come up and break our stuff.

When I got to LSU, all the dorms were single sex, but they've since gone coed.

[josh8o]

at sdsu you have a few options...

east side of campus- the more social side, and closer to everything you would want to be around.
zura- huge 3 tower dorm. its all coed. when i lived there in spring 2001 everyother room was guy girl. there are a few singles that are the size of a closet.
tenocha- big high-rise dorm. there are a few single sex floors, but its mostly coed.
living learning center- first year freshman only. its 3 story brick dorms that are coed, and help freshman adjust to college. they also help set up their classes.
cuicacalli suites- suite style dorms. i lived there this year. these are like apartments. there are 8 people to a single sex suite on a coed floor.

west side of campus- the less social side, and a distance from anything fun...
templo del sol- a dump. 3 story brick dorms. this is where all the foreign exchange kids live and its the dorm that is open over Christmas break. its all coed.
chapultepec- a 11 story high-rise dorm. it's a new dorm, but it was closed this year to fix a mold problem.... its a nice dorm, and the upper floors have great views of san diego. it's coed

villa alvarado- these are apartments that are treated like dorms. they are a coed complex, but each unit is single sex. they are kinda out of the way...

university towers- this high-rise dorm is not operated by sdsu and is off by its self. it's coed.

[NoShame_Gamma]

At LBSU (Long Beach State Univ.) there were two areas that were suites and they were co-ed by suite. Then you had your 2 traditional buildings (long hallway w/rooms on either side) and I think those had 1 co-ed floor and the other 2 were single sex by floor or wing (west wing / east wing).
There was absolutely no drugs or liquor allowed (but you could get away with anything in the suites).
Overnight guests didn't matter as long as your roommate approved. I think you were supposed to check in your guests, but nobody really cared.

At Humboldt State, aside from the campus apartments (where I lived for a year when I transferred), I really don't know what the rules are. The apartments were either single sex or co-ed.
Liquor was allowed for those who were of age. In the apartments, you could drink in the living room and other common areas and store liquor in the fridge. However, you weren't supposed to drink if minors were present (excluding roommates).
And almost everybody smokes pot! Instead of getting expelled or suspended for smoking pot, you get a warning. Doesn't really matter if it's your LGA (RA) or UPD (Univ. Police) who catches you. If your a frequent smoker, you get sent to "weekly meetings."

Funny huh?

[LeslieAGD]

at my school:

Freshman Dorms: co-ed by floor
Honor Dorms: used to be co-ed by floor, I'm not sure if they still are
All others: co-ed by suite (usually every other)

We also have an all women's dorm.

[Kevin]

At the University of Central Oklahoma there are NO co-ed dorms. We have the women's dormitory and the men's dormitory. Then you have the commons which are more like apartments. We also have the Suites which are 4 1-person bedrooms with a single living room in the middle. I guess we do have co-ed housing if you want to count the married student housing. There are also some dorms that are exclusive to grad students (and they are truly the ugliest dorms on campus).

You can easily live off campus or in fraternity/sorority housing though. It's not required to live in the dorms (waiting list is long anyhow)

LHT
Kevin

[DWAlphaGam]

At my school, there were 2 female dorms, 2 male dorms, 2 freshmen dorms that were coed by floor, and all the rest of the housing on campus (excluding fraternity and sorority houses) were coed by either floor, suite, or wing. There were also arts houses, off-campus apartments, and themed floors in a couple of the dorms. Overnight guests didn't matter as long as your roommate didn't mind, and most people who had significant others with singles pretty much lived at their place.

[aephi alum]

At MIT, we had:

Undergrads: (all undergrad dorms house freshmen through seniors)
1 all-women's dorm
4 dorms with suites - some suites were single-sex, others were coed by room (I lived in one of these dorms)
5 dorms with halls - coed by room

Grad students:
1 (very small) all-women's dorm
1 dorm with suites - coed by room
2 dorms with apartments - coed by apartment

Married student housing:
2 apartment buildings - apartments were a mix of efficiencies, 1 bedroom, and 2 bedroom - 2 bedroom apts. were only available to those with at least 2 children

Since I graduated, an additional undergrad dorm has been built (I think it opens this fall) to accommodate MIT's new policy that all freshmen must live on campus.

There were no restrictions on liquor or other drugs, overnight guests, or anything else - except pets. You weren't allowed any pets other than fish. However, a LOT of people had cats... if you were allergic to cats and your suitemate had a cat, you found another suite to live in. I know one guy who named his cat Fish, so that if the house manager challenged him, he could truthfully say "I only have Fish."

[Kevin]

Funny thing I heard about pets (or maybe not funny at all depending on if it's used or not):

At Oklahoma State the rule I'm told is that anything is allowed if it can survive underwater for 3 minutes. I'm wondering if this test is ever actually used