<p>Which colleges have substance free floors? And are these floors significantly better or there aren't much of a difference? thank you!</p>
<p>Stevenson, Cowell, Merrill, Porter & Kresge have Substance-Free Dorms.</p>
<p>I’m currently a freshman at UCSC and i’m at stevenson college. At stevenson, we have two substance free houses (we have 8 houses altogether). There honestly isn’t much of a difference, everyone i know in the substance free houses smoke and drink anyways. Most of them were placed in there because either their parents wanted them to or just thats where the system placed them by chance. The difference is though, if you get one write up and live in a substance free house you will be asked to move to a non-substance free house. That’s the way stevenson works anyways.</p>
<p>I overheard a second year talking to a first year earlier today about substance free dorms. They both had different experiences… At Porter.</p>
<p>The second year said she was bored out of her mind whenever she was at the dorms because everyone was pretty much anti-social. The first year thought the opposite, thinking that everyone in the substance-free dorms were, bluntly put, weird. But that’s for Porter… Might be different at the other colleges.</p>
<p>I would say there’s not much of a difference but I’m don’t live on a substance free hall though. Aren’t all of halls technically suppose to be substance free anyways?</p>
<p>I live in a substance free hall at Porter and I have found (and been told by others in the adjoining halls) that it is one of the most quiet halls in the whole building. Students are very respectful of quiet hours. And I have not seen anyone come into the hall intoxicated nor smelled anything. I have been told that one of the rooms in my hall does not always adhere to the rules of being substance free, but I have not personally witnessed it so I do not offer this as fact, only hearsay.</p>
<p>And it’s not like the hall is terribly boring either. The lounge for my floor is located in my hall and seems to be one of the main hangouts for much of the building. A classmate who lives in the building (but on a different floor) told me this was, for the most part, true.</p>
<p>Do remember that substance free halls mean more than just “no smoking and no drinking” within the hall whether you’re of age or not. They also mean you are barred (or supposed to be) from entering the hall intoxicated.</p>
<p>The difference being that a student who lives in a “regular” (not substance free) hall, who is of age, and who does not have a roommate that is underage may drink alcohol in the privacy of his or her room with the door closed (this is expressly permitted in the rules of your housing contract). You cannot do this in a substance free hall regardless of age.</p>