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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?
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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.
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