School:
Penn State Univ
1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo?
I believe there was one co-ed dorm when I was there, probably more now. At the time, most of the dorms were single sex, the apartments (usually jr/seniors) were single sex apts in a co-ed bldg
2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it?
I have no idea what the "official" policy was. I lived in a basement room and just opened the side door to let my (or floormates) guests in. I think you had to show ID after hours to say you were a student but if you were with a dorm resident you weren't stopped. Most of the times issues came up if one roommate had a boyfriend who always came over but it was usually up to the RA to mediate.
3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?
Single sex, my mom was not havin it any other way...
4. Did you sneak folks in and out?
Yes, (see #2)..although it was just out of laziness not to go up to the front door...we didn't have dorm checks like my friends told me about at HBCU's or a curfew
5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them?
Keep in touch with roomie from freshman year (she was a Jr), NO to sloppy sue from soph year, after that I lived alone in a single and then off campus. I also keep up with my floor mates...
Reminisce about dorm life. Funny moments? Outrageous moments?
Watching the Mifflin Streak (all the men from this one dorm in the middle of finals week would run through the quad buck naked)....seeing who was creeping with whom when ever there was a fire drill....hiding in the closet when we were too tired to even be bothered (or it was too cold) for a freaking fire drill, being so excited that I won a call in radio contest and sharing the grand prize w/roommate and floor mates (a foot long hoagie
), gearing up for the fight on Thursdays...we had to take shifts in the rec room from early in the afternoon to keep the tv all day so we could watch Cosby/A Different World (I forget what the white girls wanted to watch..but it was one of many things that was divided by race at the time)