<p>I'm hoping here someone has experience with this issue.</p>
<p>I know you can bring family, but online it says you can bring guests "of the same gender" to stay in your dorm room over Mardi Gras. Does this also apply to your family--ie, if I'm a girl, can I not bring my own father or brother with me to stay? Has anyone tried this before? </p>
<p>I guess I wouldn't think this policy is so ridiculous if half my floor didn't have permanent live in boyfriends with them.</p>
<p>What would your roommate think of having your Dad or brother there? </p>
<p>Are these single rooms? </p>
<p>I can’t believe Tulane would allow girls to live with their boyfriends in a dorm room. </p>
<p>Don’t you have RAs there?</p>
<p>Forgot to mention–yes, I’m in a single. In a hall of singles, actually.</p>
<p>We have RAs but the really don’t pay attention to stuff like that. We don’t have a front desk in our place, either, so the policies may be rather lax here and not so in other places. It’s a liberal school: I can’t say I agree with it, honestly. But I feel like my brother/father is understandably in an entirely different category.</p>
<p>I would recommend seeing if any of your opposite gender friends would be willing to host them. I am sure you thought of that, but seemed worth mentioning.</p>
<p>You can register any ONE person you want and pay the $50 fee. It controls the access onto the campus during Mardi Gras and there are uniformed security guards monitoring for wristbands and student IDs as you enter the dorms during the long weekend. Remember almost all of the dorms are co-ed, so they only control access, not sleeping arrangements.</p>
<p>Horrors, roamingcooks! Are you suggesting the student violate stated policy? Surely nothing like that ever happens during Mardi Gras!</p>
<p>fallenchemist: Worry not. I’m certain nobody here is suggesting that our babies be treated as… <em>shudder</em> …a…a…a…adults!</p>
<p>roamingcooks: According to this link [Housing</a> & Residence Life: Mardi Gras](<a href=“http://housing.tulane.edu/mardigras.html]Housing”>http://housing.tulane.edu/mardigras.html) “Each resident is allowed two (2) guest of his/her gender in his/her room.”
They also must have the written permission of their roommate(2). I don’t know how big the rooms are, but 4 people in my old dorm room would be very crowded!</p>
<p>Now I would <em>never</em> suggest this… but sometimes a student who looks a lot like someones guest just buys themselves an extra ID for $20, rather than paying for a $50 wristband. Again, I repeat, I would <em>never</em> suggest such a thing.</p>