Cold air sleeping arrangement?

dzsaigirl · #1 04-21-2002, 08:03 PM

One of my pledge sisters transferred to Purdue a couple of years ago and said she slept in a cold air sleeping room. It sounded like a minimum security prison or the orphanage on "Madeline"! Has anyone actually lived in one of the houses that has cold air sleeping?

SquirrelGal1 · #2 04-21-2002, 08:22 PM

My chapter house also had a sleeping porch, also known as cold air sleeping. I LOVED IT! It took my months to get used to sleeping any other way when I graduated.

ZetaLuvBunny · #3 04-22-2002, 01:07 AM

What in the world? Not to sound naive, but is that for people who are hot-natured and need to keep cooler at night? That's probably not it but I know nothing about living in a sorority house since our housing is in the process and we only have chapter rooms right now.

MoonStar17 · #4 04-22-2002, 04:46 AM

Um at the risk of sounding dumb...what in the world is a cold air sleeping room? I live in Miami, Florida...cold air sleeping to me sounds like a room with an air conditioning unit..and in Florida if you dont have one consider yourself a fried egg by the end of summer. So what excatly is this cold air sleeping???
THANKS!!!

BrianMUDU · #5 04-22-2002, 11:56 AM

I've never heard the term before, but I'm assuming it is when you have a large room where everybody sleeps, like just a bunch of bunk beds. Then people have their own separate rooms that are used as living areas.

FuzzieAlum · #6 04-22-2002, 12:15 PM

What Brian describes is what I've always heard called a "sleeping porch," although I've never seen one that was actually a porch - they're just big rooms.

I don't know how anyone can do that. I cannot sleep if someone is snoring, and imagine if you have a dozen or two people all sleeping in the same room. No thanks!

ZetaLuvBunny · #7 04-22-2002, 12:17 PM

It sounds creepy to me because that reminds me of when that term was used for the sleeping arrangement at the sorority house in Florida where Ted Bundy killed a girl.

dzsaigirl · #8 04-22-2002, 12:25 PM

Cold air and sleeping porches are the same thing. It is a large room where all the girls sleep and there are bunkbeds. You don't keep your belongings in there. It is supposedly kept cold to prevent the spread of germs or something. I am jurst curious because I cannot sleep in the cold!!!! Eek!!!!

ZetaLuvBunny · #9 04-22-2002, 12:32 PM

Weird. I hope when we get our house in the next couple years that we don't have an arrangement like that. I am *very* cold-natured, and I would have to sleep in a snowsuit practically to keep warm LOL. I doubt we will have it though, because we took a vote on what we would like in a house earlier this semester, and I think most people voted for two-person rooms and a capacity of 40 or more. Supposedly the builders are "talking" to someone in the chapter about what's going on though. Apparantly we're getting a 2nd Greek Row across the street from the original which will be mostly sororities, but the newest IFC group that just formed here will also have their house there. I can't wait!!!

LeslieAGD · #10 04-22-2002, 12:54 PM

Question, do most houses have sleeping porches in addition to regular bedrooms? I know the U of M AGD house has a sleeping porch that is basically like a hangout/meeting room for the new members but the sisters have regular bedrooms.

KerriMarie · #11 04-22-2002, 01:08 PM

We have a sleeping porch and I just LOVE it. It's wonderful. It took me a few nights to get used to, but now it's wonderful.

The bedrooms in our house are very small, and there's just no room for two beds in most of them - so like my room right now has 2 desks, 2 dressers, and one bed - my roomie Rachel normally sleeps in the bed in the room (because she snores) and I sleep on my bed in the porch.

It's chilly on our porch, but we actually have two and one is kept about 5 degrees colder than the other one. I switched to the cold one for two nights and was too cold to sleep! But I like getting all bundled up in my nice warm flannel PJs and cuddling up under blankets to sleep, so I love my sleeping porch. It works out really well.

I don't know how many other sorority houses have sleeping porches... I know the Kappa house at UF has one...

roxydiva · #12 04-22-2002, 01:27 PM

here at IU, these are called cold dorms, and are almost in every house. there are also warm dorms though. they are indeed big rooms with just bunches of bunk beds. the air is cranked up, and windows are left open in the window. they are like this to keep down the spread of colds and stuff, by freezing out the germs i guess! they are also kept dark at almost all times. all of the girls swear by their electric blankets! i dont like the idea either, but most girls during rush said they loved it, because you could fall asleep easily, since no one was allowed to talk or what not in there....but who knows!

roxydiva

ladybug1116 · #13 04-22-2002, 02:14 PM

My sorority house doesn't have a sleeping porch but I know that a few houses at FSU do have them. I know at the Alpha Gam house it's as someone described....one bed, 2 desks, etc in the room and the girls kept their stuff there and slept on the porch. Most of my Alpha Gam friends really liked that arrangement too.

MoonStar17 · #14 04-22-2002, 02:15 PM

Ok you know you would expect Florida to be considered part of the "South" but apparently things are MUCH different!
While that sounds super relaxing..almost like sleeping in a freezer of beds...here in Miami all you have to do is crank the AC and it is kinda the same thing..BUT I like the idea of how its all quiet and dark and cold and no one can talk...I know here in my dorm my roomate (my pledge sister) snores super loud and sometimes doesnt go to bed until really late leaving the TV and lghts on or talking loud on the phone.. so im left tossing and turning in bed until I finally pass out..it was such a problem this past semester the docter perscribed me sleeping pills..
the actual thought of thisreally cold room as we speak makes me want to go to bed!!

If we had a house here I would think a thing like that would be nice to have...
ok wait ...also by porch do you mean its actually outside?? HMM I dunno these new phangled ideas are very interesting to this Miamian...
LOL

SigkapAlumWSU · #15 04-22-2002, 03:12 PM

We have two Porches. Both are 24-hour quiet and lights off, so if you want to take a nap in the middle of the day, you can. We have our own rooms with all our stuff in there, but we don't sleep in them. For years we had to have the windows open because of fire codes, but recently they changed it so we can close them now. The funny thing is after years of complaining about how cold it was, we still keep them open. We have enough plugs so that everyone can have an electric blanket (and believe me, winter's in Pullman get cold, so everone does have one!) We also have a timer so that you can keep your blanket on and it'll turn back on at around 9 or so, and when you go to bed, it's already all toasty! I personally like the porches because then you don't have to deal with people or roomates in your room if you want to sleep. I can't imagine any other way to sleep. Most of the Chapters here have porches as well.