<p>I’m going to be a new student at Brown next year and I’m considering asking for substance free housing. Does anyone know if that’s a floor in a dorm or a whole dorm? What dorms is it in? And just generally what is substance free housing like?</p>
<p>Next time you have a question like this, remember to use the search function. We’ve devoted entire pages of threads to talking about sub-free housing.</p>
<p>In a nutshell: sub-free housing takes up one floor of a variety of dorms. Last year, I knew of freshman sub-free housing in Champlin, Morris, Keeney, and Perkins. No guarantees of where it’ll be this year.</p>
<p>What it’s like: residents of the sub-free floors pledge to not be on their floors while intoxicated with any substance. This doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t use substances, you just know that everyone on your floor will be sober when they’re around. Also, you know you’re around like-minded people.</p>
<p>I know the Champlin and Morris sub-free floors got really close this past year, and many of them chose to form housing groups together.</p>
<p>Sorry about that - I’m brand new to this site. I did see a couple of those other threads but I didn’t know I should just join them. Thanks for the answer though!</p>
<p>What about single sex housing?</p>
<p>Surprised I missed this thread, because I normally check out the subforums. bruno14 has given a very good answer about sub-free, but a couple other points are worth making. Particularly freshman year, there’s no guarantee that everyone there has that like mentality. There exist people (not necessarily many, but generally a couple) who are on the floor against their will (often because parents signed them up against their will). There were several parties with alcohol on my floor freshman year. One was broken up and the person whose room it was got in trouble. Even this year, in an upperclassman sub-free floor, there was some drinking or coming back drunk. Admittedly, we were as a whole fine with that behavior as long as it was infrequent and didn’t disturb others.</p>
<p>I know much less about single sex housing, but it too tends to be a floor in a building. Some colleges separate genders by floor as a rule, providing limited or no cross-gender access. In that sense, Brown’s not offering a novel experience, and there are no rules about the opposite gender being on the floor or in the rooms. An all-male floor my freshman year was in Andrews. They seemed to be very social, though I got the impression not all of them were happy being on a single sex floor.</p>