At both of my kids’ colleges, there was a significant restriction on how long a guest could stay overnight. This was clearly so that folks didn’t just poach living quarters in the college housing.
I find it astounding that the Parent was permitted to basically live in this housing. Plus, this was a father living with a group of college girls.
And where my kids went…a parent most definitely could lodge a complaint about this issue. Both attended urban colleges, and the very last thing the colleges wanted was folks living in their housing…for free.
Unless I misread, I believe one parent at least did lodge a complaint and they were basically blown off by the college.
Sorry, but this at least should have been looked into by the college…in a significant way. Visiting is one thing. Moving in is quite another.
The roommates were both young men and women. And during the extended period this took place they moved to a place rented by a friend of the father. Not all this took place on campus.
In the beginning, the group living on a house in the middle of campus, owned by Sara Lawrence. It was definitely within their control and they should have taken action so that there were no nonstudents living in the group house. Eventually, the group did move off campus but for the first bunch of months, it was this 50+ year old male ex-con living in a campus-owned house with a bunch of young students, many of whom were very vulnerable.
So, if you (for example) had a HS junior who was (for example) interested in SLC, what would you advise the kid about keeping the school on the list, conducting some due diligence about campus culture, etc.? Would you as parent pre-emptively cross it off the list? How much is this a SLC-specific situation vs a “could happen anywhere” issue? Asking for a friend.
The school would be off the list. One of my kids had it on a very early long list and after reading up on the school more, it came off the list as not a good fit because it just struck us as too unconventional (and we are not conventional people).
I have a good friend (my age) who went to Sarah Lawrence. She’s kind of a hippie poet. I think it’s the right school for a certain sort of person, but they sure dropped the ball here. The daughter of my cousin attended, but I don’t think she stuck with it.
