Your boyfriend brushed his teeth in your dorm room in the mornings? Oh the scandal! I am shocked…shocked. :">
I believe the sink in @ChoatieMom 's was located in the communal bathroom, not her dorm room. Not that it means anything. 
Right, ski. It was the communal bathroom.
Nothing scandalous ever happened in my room. 
I guess I’m a traditionalist. For freshmen, I like the hall set-up. Double rooms, a communal bathroom.
I’ve posted many times about my freshman roommate, who brought in multiple male partners, stole my scarves, jewelry, checks, typewriter, about anything of value, and how I would have loved a single.
I still like the traditional style form, but with an RA with someone with gumption. After first and second violations of rules and thievery, she needed to get firm. I had to finally go to police to get any action. The college RA, Dean, etc., did nothing. I have disliked this U ever since,
brantly, nothing brings joy to an 18 year old freshman as much as using a communal bathroom which was last renovated circa 1948.
LOL. It may be one of THE most important reasons to go to college.
^^^This was my D’s freshman dorm! The other, suite-style freshman dorms (that often appear on “best college dorms” lists) were over our budget. She survived just fine, and is in the same dorm this year. But they renovated the bathrooms over the summer and she says they are much better now. 
The traditional dorms are considered the more social of the two options, and best if you want to make friends.
A communal bathroom last renovated in 1948 would likely have had a gang shower and, for the guys, a trough for a urinal, which would have had a very familiar feel, since a lot of the students at that time would have been studying on the GI Bill. Personally, I’m happy with whatever amenities my dorm provides.
This is amusing, because the guys in our dorm, knowing that years of requests to repair the communal bathroom went unanswered, petitioned to renovate on our own.
We couldn’t believe it when housing showed up with a truck full of the requested materials, looked at the bathroom, shrugged and dropped everything off.
It was last done in 1947 or 1948 and one of the things we removed was…the trough urinal.
Four weeks later, we had a brand new bathroom.
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at most schools…you would need permits,an engineering study, use union labor have two committees sign off on the project than submit it to the dean and presidents office on and on and on…by the time you finished you would be living in a senior citizens home and your great grand kids would have already graduated college.
p.s maybe you could renovate the senior citizens home bathrooms too.
One of the unexpected benefits of sending my daughter off to live in the oldest, grossest dorm at Wellesley (that would be Dower, for anyone thinking of sending their daughter to W) was her new found appreciation for a clean bathroom. She suddenly developed a desire to keep the bathroom she shares with her brother at home cleaner than it had ever been. And oddly enough, she chose to live in Dower for two years because she liked the community feeling so much. There is no dorm design that will suit all students.
UCLA has traditional dorms, Plazas, and Suites. Plazas are like a traditional hall but either there is a bath in each room or two rooms share a bath. What I like about a traditional hall set-up is that in some ways it forces a freshman, who might be shy, to socialize by at the very least walking down the hall and back. I was shocked when my youngest went to Berkeley and the bathrooms were co-Ed. He said he really wasn’t a big deal though.
LOL. Well, recently renovated. This design is the most social and compels you to get out of your room. This is why it’s called a dormitory, not a hotel.
It was definitely a time and Housing just did not want to deal with it. Next thing you know, the girls wanted theirs renovated, too AND they wanted to use ours during the work. Can you imagine?