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From: ahu@pucc-k (eckhardt)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Purdue housing info (really, coed dorms)
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Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 13:56:16 EST
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In article <1202@sdcsvax.UUCP> rose@sdcsvax.UUCP (Dan rose) writes:
>In article <848@wdl1.UUCP> kimery@wdl1.UUCP writes:
>>[Excerpts request for housing info for daughter going to Purdue].
>>did.  The co-ed part is nothing to worry about, its guys on one half of the
>>building and gals on the other, with escorts required at ALL times.
>You've got to be kidding.  Escorts?  Men and women in different halves
>of the building?  Was this twenty-five years ago? :-)
>
            it was true 25 years ago and is still true today.
>
>Escorts?  Do they do bed checks, too?  :-) 

	    as of 4 years ago, in at least one
	    all-female dorm, they still had room
	    checks at 11 pm (although I can't remember
	    which one, since I only lived in a
	    'dorm' (hah) for 2 weeks).

>who went to Purdue elaborate on this?  Besides, isn't it a little
>hypocritical to have neo-Victorian dorm life and then have fraternities
>on campus?
 
	    The dorm system does alot to encourage the 
	    Greek system here....I mean, we've got something
	    like 75 sororities and fraternaties.
	    
	    Purdue admittedly tries for a "in loco parentis"
	    handling of Midwestern morality...our student
	    union's hotel doesn't allow unmarried couples
	    of any age to register or get a room together...
	    this became an issue in the campus paper recently
	    when somebody's mother and her boyfriend were
	    forced to get separate rooms (or probably, go
	    someplace else).

	    Personally, I've lived off-campus for the whole
	    of my (too-long) existance here (except for those
	    first two weeks) and never regretted it nor 
	    experienced a rough time meeting people, aside
	    from my first semester....when I was abit homesick
	    and lonely. 

	    About those two weeks in a dorm...we had 4 girls
	    living in a two room "apartment". All four of us
	    slept in the bedroom equipped with 2 bunk beds, 
	    a mirror, 2 dressers, and 1 closet. It was quite
	    a change for someone accustomed to having their 
	    own room. On top of that, Freshman and Sophmores
	    weren't allowed to have cars on campus (this has
	    since changed, I believe) including the dorms,
	    so I had a choice of a) "boarding" my car in a
	    garage for $60/month, b) parking it in the pay
	    -by-the-day campus garage or c) accumulating 
	    tickets daily (off campus is mostly 2-hour parking).

	    I moved off campus and was actually closer to my
	    classes, had a driveway for my car, my own room,
	    and could eat when I was hungry. And it didn't cost
	    any more than what I had been paying for the dorm.
	    (Although I did have to do the dishes.)

	    I guess its obvious what I think of 'dorm life'.
	    Of course, being in a dorm for your first semester 
	    does have benefits...you get to be surrounded by kids
	    who are as lonely and anxious to make friends as you 
	    are. In my case, I made friends mostly with the 
	    upper classmen who were living off campus. And
	    I joined all kinds of clubs (though never a sorority
	    because my dorm mates told me I'd have a dress code
	    to adhere to and a fraternity that I'd be expected
	    to *befriend*) which alleviated the sense of isolation
	    you can get living off campus. Purdue is fortunate in
	    that most clubs aren't at all strict about attendance
	    ...if you show up, fine, if not, well, see you next
	    time. And there are several rooms near the student 
	    union designated for off-campus people to study, relax,
	    etc.

>			Dan (not Broadway Danny) Rose
>			rose@UCSD