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From: srp@houligan.UUCP (S R Pietrowicz)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Purdue housing info (really, coed dorms)
Message-ID: <190@houligan.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 08:14:23 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 21 08:14:23 1985
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>>[Excerpts request for housing info for daughter going to Purdue].
>>...For a co-ed dorm try one of the H-halls (try Harrison).  These are
>>clean, and contained very friendly people, at least when I lived there they
>>did.  The co-ed part is nothing to worry about, its guys on one half of the
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>>building and gals on the other, with escorts required at ALL times.
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>You've got to be kidding.  Escorts?  Men and women in different halves
>of the building?  Was this twenty-five years ago? :-)

>Escorts?  Do they do bed checks, too?  :-)  Seriously, could somebody
>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?

I just graduated from Purdue (Go Boilers!) last May, and lived all four
years in a dorm.  The escort policy is pretty much ignored in the male dorms
and in the male half of the "co-ed" dorms.  The escorts aren't really even
needed in the women's half of the dorm.  If I was ever stopped, which wasn't
too often,  all I ever had to do was explain I was on my way to my 
girlfriend's room, or on my way out.   

BUT, ever so often there was a female counselor that would get mad.  Three 
friends of mine were caught one night sneaking out of Harrison.  The counsler
had been waiting by the door!  That, thank God, was the exception, and not
the normal habit of the counseling staff.  Pretty much the counselor rule
of thumb is "If I don't see it or hear it, I won't come to investigate it."

You might be interested in knowing that Purdue has a guest hour policy in
the dorms too.  12:30 am to 9:30 am Sunday-Thursday, 2:00 am to 9:30 Friday
and Saturday.  The above rule of thumb applied to this too!  

About every year that I went there, students tried to change this guest hours 
policy.  Big petitions and the whole deal.  They were always squashed out by
the administration of the dorms.  (Almost always because of the rich Alumns). 

Hey! Don't get Purdue wrong.  How many people know that one of it's 
dorms, Cary Quad, is the home of the annual Nude Olympics?