<p>anyone in sub-free housing this year? comments?</p>
<p>At my school the substance free dorms are all athletes.</p>
<p>From what i've heard, substance free is a title....not actuality.</p>
<p>When I was supposed to live in a suite my sophomore year I picked the wellness community or whatever they called it...I never figured out if it was just a euphanism for substance-free or if it meant that the people there were supposed to be into healthy eating and whatnot as well.</p>
<p>Anyway I picked it because I didn't want to be stuck with a bunch of ditzy girls that came to school primarily to party, so when I got the room assignment I talked to one of the new roommates (the other 3 were all friends) and she turned out to be.....a ditzy party girl. I guess she thought that because she only got drunk 3 times a week instead of 6 or 7 that meant that she "didn't really drink"? I have no idea. Didn't end up living there anyway.</p>
<p>well, usually the difference between sub free and regular is that sub free floors do not permit residents to be on the floor while drunk or high, in addition to not doing any of the drinking or drugs on the floor.</p>
<p>they actually take this pretty seriously at my school and i know people who have been kicked out of sub free for coming back to their rooms drunk or whatnot.</p>
<p>Uofchicago is substance free in all dorms this year I believe.</p>
<p>^ ha i find it hard to believe they ever had a problem with it before</p>
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well, usually the difference between sub free and regular is that sub free floors do not permit residents to be on the floor while drunk or high, in addition to not doing any of the drinking or drugs on the floor
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<p>Wow. So they'd rather you be out on the street or in some strange dorm or other place where you don't know the people or whether you can trust them, when you're drinking?</p>
<p>That seems very counterintuitive to me.</p>
<p>They want you not on the floor with residents who are uncomfortable with substance use. That means you sleep it off where you are, crash at a friend's, etc. It doesn't mean you need to sleep in the gutter. </p>
<p>After having people puke outside my door at all hours (and at least once a weekend) because they're so drunk, I can appreciate not wanting drunk students to come back to anywhere, never mind a sub-free floor.</p>
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well, usually the difference between sub free and regular is that sub free floors do not permit residents to be on the floor while drunk or high, in addition to not doing any of the drinking or drugs on the floor.</p>
<p>they actually take this pretty seriously at my school and i know people who have been kicked out of sub free for coming back to their rooms drunk or whatnot.
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<p>Wow, that's really strict. I lived in sub-free last year. The only rule was that you couldn't have any substances <em>inside</em> the dorm. If you wanted to go somewhere else, get trashed, and come back, that was fine. You couldn't officially get in trouble for being drunk in sub-free unless your behavior while under the influence disturbed someone.</p>
<p>Last year, I only knew one "party girl" who was living in sub-free because her parents forced her to. Everyone else was there by choice, mainly because we all wanted a quiet, study-friendly atmosphere.</p>
<p>At Washington University in St. Louis, I lived in a sub-free dorm during my freshman year. The rules were similar to the ones at apple green's school in that you were not allowed to have substances in the dorms, but as long as you didn't disturb anyone, there was no problem coming home after drinking. It worked pretty well at Wash U because the people who lived there were there by choice. Sub-free housing seems to work really well at some schools and not so well at others...</p>
<p>My school's policy is like the one at apple green's. You're not allowed to use substances in the subfree dorms, but you can go out and drink/smoke other places. When you come back, you're just not supposed to disrupt others.
For some reason, I'm the only one in my (subfree) quad who requested subfree.</p>
<p>^ That may be because we go to the same school ...</p>
<p>Subfree works best when the only people living in the subfree hall/dorm all wanted to do it.</p>
<p>Hahahah, that MIGHT explain it.</p>
<p>-Sigh- Substance free dorm...yay. Though I guess it's better than Temp. Housing!</p>