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From: lo@hplabsb.UUCP (Jeff Lo)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Purdue housing info (really, coed dorms)
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Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 12:10:05 EST
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> In article <715@leadsv.UUCP> morse@leadsv.UUCP (Terry Morse) writes:
> ...
> >> >>>did.  The co-ed part is nothing to worry about, its guys on one half of
> >> >>       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> >>>building and gals on the other, with escorts required at ALL times.
> >> >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ...
> >
> >Can I believe what I read?  Guest hours?  Escorts required?  I thought that
> >sort of stuff went away decades ago!!  What planet is this "Purdue" place on?
>
> Some places do this and stil call it a 'co-ed' dorm, it is less structured on
> the coasts, from what I've heard and experienced.  (At MIT, 'co-ed' means
> there might be a girl living in the ROOM next to yours, and there is 24-hour
> visitation, with no escort required.)
>
> In some dorms there are male-only floors in order to keep a 60/40 male/female
> ratio on the coed floors, but there are no restriction unless you go to the
> Women's DORM, where there are only 8 (escorted) males allowed in at one time
> (more to prevent lots of guys stopping by at 5:00 to eat the best dorm food
> on campus than anything else, according to the rumor I heard.)
>
>                                       - Ralph

Well, it is less structured on the coasts, the west one at least. At
UC Berkeley, all of the dorm except 2 are co-ed, co-ed meaning both sexes
on the same floor sharing the same bathroom. While the this tended to upset
some people (especially parents) at first, it actually works out pretty well.

The one women's dorm at Cal is also reputed to have the best dorm food on
campus, but better garbage is still garbage.

                                        Jeff Lo
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