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Originally Posted by Senusret I
Focus, people.
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OK, I will take a stab.
My husband went to Rice, so that is where I have obtained my (admittedly general/basic) knowledge on their system. Rice is a private school in Houston with about 2000 undergrads known for its sciences and engineering programs, as well as more recently their baseball team.
They do not have fraternities or sororities there, instead every student is randomly assigned to one of ten co-ed residential colleges. On campus these colleges function in much the same way as our GLOs.
Each college has its own dorm and most of them differ widely in architecture. Some are super old, and others have been built/created in the past 10 years. For most colleges the members live-in freshman, junior and senior years. Those that live-out typically do so sophomore year due to space constraints. Priority of living-in is given to freshman to assimilate them to campus and then seniority. Therefore, it is the sophomores who get booted off campus for a year before returning. With the building of several new colleges in the past 10 years perhaps there is less need for sophomores to move out.
In addition, each college has its own cafeteria/eating area, so there is no campus wide cafeteria. You eat all your meals with your college, which may be served family style. Memory is failing me on that.
Campus wide activities/competitions always pit college against college, as your college is where your loyality lies first and foremost. These are huge events that draw pretty much the entire campus body. One of the most popular is
Beer Bike, which is exactly what it sounds like. Its so popular that it has its own tab on the website home page! Student government represenation, intramurals, pretty much everything is based on the colleges.
Each college has its own colors, team cheer, personality, and crest. I can't remember if there are mascots/symbols or not. My husband graduated 15 years ago, but is still as loyal to "Weiss College" as I am to my GLO. All of his closest friends from Rice were also in Weiss.
I'll ask my husband tonight if there is anything that I have left out.
Hope that helps.
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