<p>Does the University of Michigan have a policy regarding overnight guests in the dorm room? What about overnight guests of the opposite sex?
If my roommate wants to have overnight guests, does she have to ask me?</p>
<p>No rules. No one cares. Well maybe your roommate would but as long as you check with her first you’re good :)</p>
<p>I think some dorms have different rules than others. For example, an all female dorm may be more strict, but overall I’d say it’s a non issue.</p>
<p>Martha Cook is the only dorm with any sort of sign in thing. Everywhere else there’s no rules about bringing people in or letting them stay over.</p>
<p>All I know is that I don’t think it’s allowed to have someone stay for any sort of extended period of time in your room who isn’t a university housing resident, but even then there’s no way for them to really find out or anything. But for one or two nights no one cares. If the person is a resident, they can live in your room as far as anyone is concerned. I have a couple friends who never slept in their own rooms because they just stayed in their boyfriend/girlfriend’s room every night because they had singles.</p>
<p>But yeah, just make sure your roommate is cool with it. Having unwanted people in your room can create some tension.</p>
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<p>The university doesn’t want to get into the business of policing roommate relationships, so there are no rules per se. The assumption is that you and your roommate are co-tenants with equal rights to use the room, and there is no explicit prohibition on short-term overnight guests, so as with any question as to how the room is used, you pretty much just need to act reasonably and work it out. Most people would assume this means checking in with your roommate and getting her OK before having any overnight guest, and all the more so if the overnight guest is a member of the opposite sex. There can be frictions if one roommate is unusually uptight about such things or if one roommate is unusually demanding about having overnight guests. Most people work it out, but if they can’t, there may be limited opportunities to swap rooms/roommates or to transfer to housing vacancies that open up over the course of the year. </p>
<p>If you (or your family) are particularly uncomfortable with the idea of your roommate having overnight guests of the opposite sex, my guess is it happens somewhat less frequently in all-women’s buildings like Betsy Barbour or Helen Newberry (or Martha Cook, which is the one residence hall that does have rules prohibiting opposite-sex overnight guests). You should also be aware, however, that the host roommate could also have a sexual relationship with an overnight guest of the same sex.</p>
<p>Hey, that’s modern life.</p>