<p>What are the pros/cons of living in a single sex area? What are the pros/cons of living in a co-ed area? </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Lol there almost AREN’T any de jure single-sex areas on campus (I can only think of Laughlin, part of which is all-girls, but that’s in the junior slums). I’m not so sure it makes a difference at all because each room/suite is still single-sex so that’s who you’re actually interacting with on a daily basis (although I believe there has been an outcry by some for gender-neutral housing to better accommodate the needs of LGBT students).</p>
<p>i guess ill jsut ask my question here since there’s a topic on it.</p>
<p>for housing, do ALL of the colleges have a substance free area or only select residential houses?</p>
<p>All residential colleges will have areas (entryways, floors, etc) in certain dorms that are sub-free, but not all individual dorms will have sub-free rooms.</p>
<p>:D coolios. thanks!</p>
<p>What exactly is “substance free” and can anyone comment on it?</p>
<p>If you are assigned to a substance-free dorm (willingly or not), you have to sign this contract that says you will not keep or consume any alcohol, cigars, cigarettes, chewing tobacco, drugs, etc etc in your room. </p>
<p>You’re allowed to smoke/drink/do drugs elsewhere on campus (but not in the sub-free halls/entries of your dorm) as long as it doesn’t affect your roommates OR hallmates (in other words, don’t come back trashed and vomit all over whatever, be it the sink in the hall bathroom, the futon in your room, or the coffee table in the lounge). If your roommates/hallmates complain once, you get a warning. If they complain twice, you get kicked out of sub-free housing.</p>
<p>Do a lot of people live in substance-free dorms and would you recommend it?
I’m not really sure what to think…I mean, I don’t necessarily want people throwing up on my futon haha but I don’t want to be secluded either…</p>
<p>It’s hard to tell. There are definitely more regular dorms than sub-free dorms but other than that… I don’t know if supply exceeds demand, if it’s vice versa, etc. I’ve never personally lived in a sub-free room, but I’ve lived in the same building as some sub-free rooms. There were definitely more parties thrown in our area of the building, but I haven’t actually run into any problems involving drunk people making a mess of things.</p>
<p>I said sub-free because i don’t want drunken idiots partying where i sleep. i’ll go to the party i don’t want the party coming to my dorm. i’d rather have my peace</p>
<p>i heard subfree was nicer overall than the others. is this true?</p>
<p>it depends on the college as to whether or not subfree is better-- forbes subfree is (or used to be) main inn, so people would sign into subfree for the better rooms sophomore year. It doesn’t really matter one way or the other, and lots of people who don’t live subfree lives end up in subfree freshman year bc of their parents.</p>
<p>Subfree is silly because the only enforcement mechanism is the residents of the room themselves. We drew into sub free my sophomore year just because it was a sick room.</p>