College Dorms. . .A Few Questions

[CrimsonTide4]

Last night reminded me of dorm life and the rules.

I know we have threads where we identify if we went to a PWI or an HBCU but refresh my memory when you respond.


DORM LIFE:

1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo?
2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it?
3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?
4. Did you sneak folks in and out?
5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them?


Reminisce about dorm life. Funny moments? Outrageous moments?

[CrimsonTide4]

Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio http://www.wittenberg.edu


1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo?

We had one single sex dorm called Hanley, but it was connected to 2 co-ed dorms. The rest of the dorms were all co-ed. Ferncliff was co-ed by floor. The 3rd floor was 1/2 male and 1/2 female.

2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it?
Yes. Visitation of opposite sex in your rooms was over at midnight on Mondays - Thursdays or maybe Sundays - Thursdays. Fridays and Saturdays, no opposite sex in your room after 2:00a.m.

We had nightguards where you had to sign your company in and out. Nightguards were on duty from 9 - 4a.m. I worked that job 2 weeks and quit.

3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?

Freshman year -- Woodlawn Hall which was connected to South and Hanley. Woodlawn was substance free.

Sophomore and Junior year -- Ferncliff.

4. Did you sneak folks in and out?
Of course I did.

5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them?

Freshman year -- Rachael, she pledged Delta Zeta. (NO)
Sophomore -- Jelynn (YES, this is my road dawg)
Junior -- lived alone
Senior #1 -- apt with Stephanie (every now and again) and Shondraye (no)

[Honeykiss1974]

1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo?
We had one dorm that was co-ed (one floor was male, another floor was female, etc.). This lst for two years and the university got rid of it. Now, all dorms are either all-male or all-female.

2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it?
Yes. We had visitation hours from 9am - 11pm during the week and I think until 12 or 1 am on Friday and Saturday. Sometimes, during the late hours of the night, our Dorm director (or Housing director) would do surprise "room checks" .

If you were taking visitors of the opposite sex up to your room, you had to sign them in at the front desk and escort them. Didn't matter if it was your dad, brother, cousin, or boyfriend.

Anyone could come and hang out in the lobby.

3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?
Single sex dorm because we had no choice.

4. Did you sneak folks in and out?
Yep. Shoot I was grown! *lol*

5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them?
Yes. I still keep in touch with my old roomates. Except for my very first college roommate. She was GHETTO as all get out! She was a big girl, with BLOND hair and wore these (literally) Coke-bottle thick glasses! ! Just to give yall a visual, picture Robin Harris with blond hair and some thick glasses like Sophia from The Golen Girls. And y'all she talked EXACTLY liked Sha-na-na, I'm not playing.

And of course she thought I was not "black enough" since I spoke standard english and due to other superficial stuff (long hair, skin tone, etc.).

Ohhhh, the fall semester couldn't end fast enough!

Ol' Heffa!

[TonyB06]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
Last night reminded me of dorm life and the rules.

I know we have threads where we identify if we went to a PWI or an HBCU but refresh my memory when you respond.

DORM LIFE:

1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo?
2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it?
3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?
4. Did you sneak folks in and out?
5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them?
Reminisce about dorm life. Funny moments? Outrageous moments?

school was Ohio University.

1. co-ed
2. mighta had one, I dunno.
3. co-ed. scenery was muuch better
4. didn't have to sneak
5. yes, my two best friends that I'd known since 3rd grade. Yep, we still holla fairly regularly.

quick funny story...freshman year we lived in a quad (4 guys. me and my 2 buddies and Ted, from Appalachia).

One night, about midnight, I wake up, having to go to the bathroom, but I notice the lump in the bunk above me (Ted's bed) is bigger for some reason. Then I start to hear noises, yes...THEM noises. I'm like "No, he is not sexing this girl in the room with 3 other dudes." But, yes, he was.

Anyway, I'm laying there, trying to wait for "matters to conclude" but I gotta go. Finally, I'm like "if they freaky enough to get down w/ 3 people in the room, why am I trippin?" So I stand up (putting me right at eye level w/ the festivities--not a pretty sight at all) and say "hey, what's up?"

...when I returned to the room, Ellie Mae, (Ted's woman), was gone. Ted almost got his a$$ kicked a couple other times that quarter over things and moved out at quarter's end.

[ClassyLady]

College: Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University

1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo?

All of the dorms at FAMU are single sex. Black parents don't really like the idea of little Keisha living alone for the first time with a man right next door. There are apartments on campus and the individual apartments are same sex as well while the buildings are not. Even then, the opposite sex is not allowed anywhere but in the living room and kitchen.

P.S. Despite the rules, there is a member of the opposite sex in the dorms at all times.

2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it?

The opposite sex was allowed to visit in the lobby of the dorms until midnight. Like I said, they were upstairs in the rooms too. There were several times when boys spent the night at my neighbors' rooms.

3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?

Only girls in my dorm and I had no choice.

4. Did you sneak folks in and out?

Boyfriend came up to my room two or three times. Some nights it was just too cold to go outside to see him.

5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them?

I still live with my roommate from my freshman year. We live in the same house but we only see each other about twice a week. I am not here that often and when I am, it's in the daytime when she's at class.

[AKA2D '91]

1. SS, there is a co-ed dorm on campus NOW.

2. Periodically. When we were allowed, it was on Saturdays and Sundays. Did I have a "visitor"? NOPE.

3. SS

4. Hell Naw!

5. Yep. Only one...she was my linesister and we were roomies in our off campus apartment (so I guess that doesn't count).

[Rain Man]

I will answer by school since I was a dorm dweller @ Kent State (a PWI) and Central State (an HBCU)

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4


DORM LIFE:

1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo?

Kent State: All of the above: Single sex, co-ed by floor and co-ed by wing. There were 30 dorms divided up in 7 campus "districts" Six of them were strictly for upperclassmen and the over 21 crowd and all those were co-ed, one of which was an all-single room dorm.

Central State: single sex only.

2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it?

Don't know, never had an issue with it. All I remember was that at Central State, for our dorm (all male upperclassmen), all female students and visitors had to sign in and out of the dorm. Male students and visitors, parents of either sex, and children were exempt from this rule.

3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?

Kent State: originally a co-ed dorm (Humphrey Hall), but I hated the distance from my classes, the window view and my roommate, so I transferred to Clark Hall (all-male). I wanted to live in Manchester Hall (co-ed by floor), but I had a good roommate, so I stayed at Clark.

Central State: SS 'cause the CSU administration said so.

4. Did you sneak folks in and out?

Both schools: No; didn't have to, didn't need to, didn't have a reason to.

5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them?

Kent State: Robert Brown (No, but I would've liked to).
Note: My original roommate was a white guy named Ray Fatur, and I couldn't stand him or his friends; they were too busy trying to be smart-a[leck]s whenever they were in my room. And he would jump on you in a minute if you touched his Pittsburgh Steelers blanket (if you leaned against the bunk bed, Ray would say, "Watch it! Steeler blanket!" Goodness, what a moron.

Central State: Darrell Elting (No)

Reminisce about dorm life. Funny moments? Outrageous moments?

Kent State: Rob was normally a rather quiet, reserved black guy, but get him around someone like me and we would be chattin' about everything that was anything. Some of the debates and discussions we had bordered on the silly and inane, but I had a great time being his roommate.

Central State: I spoke w/Darrell very little. All I knew was that he always left my TV on at full blast and wouldn't be in the room to watch it.

Notable fact: I met Rob's younger sister Angela @ CSU when she was a freshman. Her boyfriend was a friend of Darrell's. She later became Miss CSU 1998 and Rob's youngest sister became Miss CSU 2000.

ETA: Oh, I remember one outrageous moment @ CSU. I was roused out of a sound sleep at 12 midnight by the hall director b/c it was my turn to police to outside dorm area (so he said..normally that is punishment for someone who broke visitation rules). Anyhow, we were picking up litter and trash, etc. when I found at least 5 used condoms littering the lawn. Luckily the RD said not to touch those..like I was gonna anyway. But it seemed that the back lawn always had used condoms in the grass. Ick.

[Kimmie1913]

Cornell University

DORM LIFE:

Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo?

All of the above. Single sex, co-ed by floor, co-ed by section or suite, and co-ed by room.

2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it?

You had to be let in the building by someone who lived in the building. All of the buildings were locked. I cannot remember if the all girls dorm had a restriction on overnight male guests (not that it would have deterred anything!)

3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?

The dorm I lived in (when I lived in a dorm) was co-ed by section. I was placed there as a freshman and stayed for sophomore year. I was also assigned there as an RA my junior year.

4. Did you sneak folks in and out?

No need. Only reason to sneak is nosey classmates in ya bidness!

5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them?

Alas, my dorm was almost all singles. A little isolating as a new freshman but heavebnly after the first month!!

I did have three roommates in a 4 bedroom off campus apartment my senior year. Of those roommates- Ayo- talk all the time, Tamika- yes, Vanessa- once every blue moon.

Reminisce about dorm life. Funny moments? Outrageous moments?

Most of my closest girlfriend from college were the other Black women assigned to my dorm my year and the year after. We had a ball running back and forth to each other's rooms. I will have to think about and come up with some dorm stories.

[Eclipse]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
Last night reminded me of dorm life and the rules.

I know we have threads where we identify if we went to a PWI or an HBCU but refresh my memory when you respond.


DORM LIFE:

1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo?
2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it?
3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?
4. Did you sneak folks in and out?
5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them?


Reminisce about dorm life. Funny moments? Outrageous moments?

Spelman College--class of 1988

1. Since Spelman is an all girls school, all dorms were single sex of course
2. Yes indeedie on the visitation policy and we had a CURFEW freshman year. Freshman curfew was 12 midnght Sunday - Thursday and 2:00 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights first semester. 2nd semester there was no weekend curfew but still the weekday curfew. Visitation was something like 6 p.m. -10 p.m Monday through Friday and longer on the weekend. Can't remember. There wa no visitation until after Labor Day. (Most folks were on campus about 2 weeks earlier) That first day visitation was like a HOLIDAY! Folks were happy!! LOL We had to do that whole, sign a guy in, announce "man on the hall" when they came down a hall. WE were also supposed to leave our doors open when we had visitors.
3. see above
4. NEVAH Spelman didn't play and I wasn't about the tell my parents I got kicked out fo school for having some random Negro in my dorm after hours. I snuck (is that a word??) in my share of dorms at Morehouse (Graves, Roberts, Mays, DuBois he he he) and Clark (Brawley--only male dorm) though. he he he

5. Freshman year roomie is still a very close friend. She was a bridesmaid in my wedding. Had a single sophomore year, and a double junior year (I did not get a roommate until the week before Thanksgiving because my roomie did not come back to school. )New roomie graduated in December so I lived with her for all of 3 week. Haven't spoken to her since. Sr. year lived off campus with a good friend. We are still very close. Matter of fact I just had a 3 hour conversation with her on Saturday (she's in Japan) I'm her oldest son's godmother and she was matron of honor in my wedding.

So many funny memories...I'll just do Freshman year. Fast walking "the gautlet" coming from a party at Morehouse at 1:55 then taking off running as soon as we were out of sight of the guys. The gautlet was guys standing out side of Spelman's gate to check out the freshman and tease us about curfew. "I know you look cute, but you better take off them shoes and run you are going to miss curfew"

Waterballon and water gun fight through the entire dorm. We even got the RD involved! LOL

Late night coversations with my girls (cause we had a curfew we couldn't go anywhere)

Morehouse's homecoming was on the Saturday that you "fall back" my freshman year. Girls tried to be slick and say that since it was never 2 a.m. in the first place they could really stay out until 3 a.m., when it was "really" 2. Me and several girls (who were obviously hatin' cause we didn't have anywhere to go!) sat in the lobby laughing as they got busted.

Alas, Spelman no longer has a curfew and it pains my heart to see girls hanging out at the "back gate" as we called it back then in the wee hours of the morning. Johnnetta Cole did a lot for Spelman but that was one of the worst.

[CrimsonAngel2001]

1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo?
We had all co-ed dorms, some dorms had single sex sections and then in the dorm I stayed in guys lived right across the hall

2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it?
No visitation policy... justcouldn't have company more than three days

3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?
lived in co-ed all of our dorms were co-ed

4. Did you sneak folks in and out?
Nope didn't have to sneak

5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them?
I had roommates 2.5 out of my 3.5 years of undergrad and we occasionally speak on the phone and see each other at events

[RBL]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
Last night reminded me of dorm life and the rules.

I know we have threads where we identify if we went to a PWI or an HBCU but refresh my memory when you respond.


DORM LIFE:

1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo?
2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it?
3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?
4. Did you sneak folks in and out?
5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them?


Reminisce about dorm life. Funny moments? Outrageous moments?

!. I attended UNCGreensboro. We had SS and Co-ed dorms
2 We had no visitation policy..24 hour visitation
3. I lived in a co-ed dorm. Me and my roommate had girls living beside us
4. Didn't have to
5. My roommate is my best friend. We keep in touch on the regular even though he has moved back to his hometown near Charlotte.

My roommate was a drunk(lol) I didn't drink and he used to get drunk and I was always dragging him from outside(after he had passed out on the stoop). We also had some wild white boys on our floor so they were always into something..apartment living was when it got crazy..nut I'll stick to the topic

[Steeltrap]

Attended USC, very PWI, 1982-1986.

DORM LIFE:

1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo?

USC had a combination of single-sex and co-ed dorms.

2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it?
I don't recall. Senility is setting in.

3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?
I lived in a co-ed dorm my freshman year, and a women's dorm in my sophomore year. My last two years, I lived in a co-ed, apartment complex owned by the university.

4. Did you sneak folks in and out?
Hell naw.

5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them?

I'm not in touch w/any of my roommates. They ran the gamut: Asian, white and AfAm (from the South Side of Chicago) with brassy blond hair.


Reminisce about dorm life. Funny moments? Outrageous moments?

I was a very mellow child and don't have many outrageous moments. Except when this skinny dude I'd invited in (very out of character) tried to grind me and I was scurred...

[ykimber]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4



DORM LIFE:

1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo?
2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it?
3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?
4. Did you sneak folks in and out?
5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them?


Reminisce about dorm life. Funny moments? Outrageous moments?

The University Of Akron
1. We have an all male dorm Brown street hall, two all female dorms Sisler and Ritchie halls, one dorm that was coed by floor Orr Hall, Gallucci, Grant, Spanton and Bulger are coed halls, and The townhouses we coed by house.

2. I don't really remember the visitation policy. I should since I worked at the front desk my freshman year! However working at the front desk during late night I saw all the creeping and sneaking!!!


3. My first year and last year on campus I stayed in a same sex dorm. I had a choice but they completely disregarded what I selected!

4. Of course that's what you should do in school, Right?!?!
We even went as far as hiding people in closets, under beds in hamper in the shared floor bathroom. We were just bad!

5. For half the school year I had a roommate however she came from a catholic school and started experimenting with drugs and stuff. Plus she kept locking me out of the room when the B*&^% new I was next door! So the remainder of the year I moved down the hall in a room by myself. I keep in touch with a few of my floor mates who I have become good friends with. I work with one of my floor mates right now.

[OthelloStreet]

1. We now have four co-ed dorms and it is a good possibility two more will be co-ed by 2006.

2. We are supposed to sign folks in but...

3. I started in the single sex dorm and was one of the first to move into a co-ed dorm. The best thing in the world.

4. I'm a GROWN ASS MAN who lives in the dorm... there is no such thing as sneaking folks in.

5. Lets see...
Freshman year.. one roommate... we still cool. Both of us are doing big things around here.
Sophomore year... one roommate... still cool, he's the RA where I stay now (can I say I get benefits ).
Junior year... two roommates... the first one is a real good friend of mine but I don't see him that much anymore. When we do speak its all good. Everybody and there mama know I don't like my second roommate and they know why too... bia bia!
Senior year... one roommate... didn't move in until about two weeks before homecoming.... I am hardly in the room because all my jobs and OBLIGATIONS keep me busy. We talk, but I don't know him as well as I knew the first three that I'm still cool with.

Because I still live on campus with all the other Grown & Sexy people trying to stay on campus, I have taken an oath not to incriminate myself or anyone else currently or whom is in the process of thinking about staying on campus. LOL @ TonyB though... had that been on certain parts of my camus, the response would have been to acknowledge that you were looking with a grin and they would have kept on going.

LOL at the rest of ya'll... I'm about to go out in the hallway to see what I can get into.

[abaici]

Originally posted by Eclipse
Spelman College--class of 1988

1. Since Spelman is an all girls school, all dorms were single sex of course
2. Yes indeedie on the visitation policy and we had a CURFEW freshman year. Freshman curfew was 12 midnght Sunday - Thursday and 2:00 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights first semester. 2nd semester there was no weekend curfew but still the weekday curfew. Visitation was something like 6 p.m. -10 p.m Monday through Friday and longer on the weekend. Can't remember. There wa no visitation until after Labor Day. (Most folks were on campus about 2 weeks earlier) That first day visitation was like a HOLIDAY! Folks were happy!! LOL We had to do that whole, sign a guy in, announce "man on the hall" when they came down a hall. WE were also supposed to leave our doors open when we had visitors.
3. see above
4. NEVAH Spelman didn't play and I wasn't about the tell my parents I got kicked out fo school for having some random Negro in my dorm after hours. I snuck (is that a word??) in my share of dorms at Morehouse (Graves, Roberts, Mays, DuBois he he he) and Clark (Brawley--only male dorm) though. he he he

5. Freshman year roomie is still a very close friend. She was a bridesmaid in my wedding. Had a single sophomore year, and a double junior year (I did not get a roommate until the week before Thanksgiving because my roomie did not come back to school. )New roomie graduated in December so I lived with her for all of 3 week. Haven't spoken to her since. Sr. year lived off campus with a good friend. We are still very close. Matter of fact I just had a 3 hour conversation with her on Saturday (she's in Japan) I'm her oldest son's godmother and she was matron of honor in my wedding.

So many funny memories...I'll just do Freshman year. Fast walking "the gautlet" coming from a party at Morehouse at 1:55 then taking off running as soon as we were out of sight of the guys. The gautlet was guys standing out side of Spelman's gate to check out the freshman and tease us about curfew. "I know you look cute, but you better take off them shoes and run you are going to miss curfew"

Waterballon and water gun fight through the entire dorm. We even got the RD involved! LOL

Late night coversations with my girls (cause we had a curfew we couldn't go anywhere)

Morehouse's homecoming was on the Saturday that you "fall back" my freshman year. Girls tried to be slick and say that since it was never 2 a.m. in the first place they could really stay out until 3 a.m., when it was "really" 2. Me and several girls (who were obviously hatin' cause we didn't have anywhere to go!) sat in the lobby laughing as they got busted.

Alas, Spelman no longer has a curfew and it pains my heart to see girls hanging out at the "back gate" as we called it back then in the wee hours of the morning. Johnnetta Cole did a lot for Spelman but that was one of the worst.

Whew!! I'm Spelman c/o 98. Some things were different.

1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo? Uh, Spelman

2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it? Yep. guys were allowed in dorms from 6-11, 2 men per student. So, no more than 4 men in a room at any given time. They had to sign in and out.

3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?N/A

4. Did you sneak folks in and out?Not my steelo...but some heffas did. In the process leaving the back door ajar (not cute, I was on the ground floor fresh year)

5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them?

Yep, same one all four years. She's PearlEssence (who's never on here). She's my bestest friend. Talk to her often.