<p>does duke have any kind of rules regarding dorms such as curfews, no guys in girl halls or floors, etc?</p>
<p>No. Duke knows you’re an adult and will treat you as such, so there’s no curfew and halls are not restricted to girls/guys only after a certain hour or anything. You can stay out as late as you want, etc etc. The beauty of college. </p>
<p>East Campus is a dry campus, just by nature of the fact that it’s all freshmen who live there, so there can be consequences (depending on your RA) if you get caught with alcohol in your room.</p>
<p>sounds perfect-- I don’t need to be rushing home to make curfew like i already do as a HS student haha</p>
<p>what’s the quietest dorm at Duke?</p>
<p>possibly epworth on east, most of central, especially around Oregon, and the ass end of Edens (3A/B)</p>
<p>Well, it definitely varies based on the year (especially this year because with all the RGAC drama and the rearranging of several frats). </p>
<p>With the freshman dorms, you never know. Some dorms are louder than others, but it just depends on what your hallmates are like. It of course, is reasonable to expect that weekday nights are quiet anywhere.</p>
<p>As an upperclassman, I found Crowell to be a very quiet dorm. There are generally no SLG’s or frats in Crowell…the only SLG when I lived there was substance free housing, so as a result it’s incredibly quiet. Never had any disturbances at all, whether it was a weekday or a weekend night I chose to stay in on. </p>
<p>I also lived in Edens 3B and it was really quite as well (not to be mistaken with the rest of Edens which is generally pretty loud (lots of frats…it used to be SAE, DSig, SigEp, and DTD…next year it’s gonna be DTD, DSig, and Pike I believe…so yeah…). I’m not sure if any frats have specifically been located to Edens 3A and 3B, which may change things, but if you don’t mind walking pretty far on a daily basis (they’re literally THE furthest dorms from the main quad), they’re usually quiet buildings.</p>
<p>Avoid Wannamaker. Next year it’s like, SAE and Wayne Manor and someone else I believe. It’s always really loud, tons of parties, etc. Kilgo, Few, and Craven have their moments. If you avoid a frat section, it will of course be quieter.</p>
<p>They posted the results of RGAC in the Chronicle a few weeks ago, and you’re generally able to see the exact sections in the dorms they live in. Looking at the building maps, you can definitely make a good judgement of what sections are loud and what aren’t.</p>
<p>Are Duke dorms arranged by years? When you say frats, are you talking about the pledges and the ones that do not live in the house? Or the frats get assigned a section of the dorm? How’s the food in the dining halls? Are there graduate students living in dorms?</p>
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<p>Only on East, which is freshmen only with the exception of upperclass resident assistants and graduate resident assistants and some “faculty-in-residence.” Otherwise, sophomores are allowed only on west with the exception of a few central campus apartments. Juniors can be either on Central or West, with a few let off campus second semester in a lottery system. Seniors can live on or off campus.</p>
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<p>Duke fraternities do not have official frat houses. They are instead assigned dorm sections on West. Frat brothers commit to live in section for a few years and then many move off campus and rent houses together (thus frats have unofficial houses). Either way, fraternity members are bound by some form of on campus housing obligation for a large part of their time at Duke. </p>
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<p>The freshmen dining hall is the Marketplace on east, it’s the usually fare (pizza, pasta, salad bar, rotating main course/sides). It’s alright but you’ll be sick of it at some point. Upperclassmen have the Great Hall which is more of a collection of food kiosks rather than a dining hall. Otherwise, most of the time, students eat from a variety of restaurants on campus using food points (basically money in your dining account). Upperclassmen have plans that are all food points (Great Hall is a la carte on food points), freshmen have a few hundred food points and a certain number of meals at the Marketplace a week. Food points can also be used to order delivery from a selection of off campus restaurants. So except for the marketplace, Duke doesn’t really have dining halls in the traditional sense. </p>
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<p>On central campus, yes. Otherwise, only as resident assistances or graduate resident assistants.</p>