<p>So, with that precious information, what would Tufts policy be if I had consensual sex WITH my roommate?</p>
<p>Ooh! I just thought of a way to answer Optional Question 2 “Are we alone?”</p>
<p>^^^if it has to do with the subject of this thread…oy vey.</p>
<p>Can someone point to where this policy is posted on Tufts’ website?</p>
<p>Page 38 of “Habitats” <a href=“http://ase.tufts.edu/reslife/documents/Habitats.pdf[/url]”>http://ase.tufts.edu/reslife/documents/Habitats.pdf</a></p>
<p>That’s a long manual.</p>
<p>Was relieved to find this–</p>
<p>Bodily Fluids in Student Rooms – Due to the serious health risks of blood borne
pathogens, vomiting, defecating, and urinating in student rooms is strictly prohibited.</p>
<p>1) Son is now a Tufts graduate. His freshman year his room was small enough that the bed’s had to be bunked. He had to put up with waking up in the middle of the night to the bed shaking from his roommate and whomever he brought back that night. He also got a wonderful demonstration of gravity one night when the roommate drank too much and could not make it from his bed before vomiting. Point is not all roommates are considerate.</p>
<p>2) Not all RA’s a great. Again freshman year, roommate allowed others into the room who enjoyed damaging son’s personal property. S went to RA about the problem. His answer was that he had no proof. By the end of freshman year he had lost 15 pounds because he would not leave the room to eat, only to go to class.</p>
<p>3) Yolanda King can be useful. Sophomore year son had a problem with the micro-fridge people (can’t remember the group name anymore) honoring the contract they made with him. After repeated calls to them, they would not return son’s call. One call to Yolanda King and those micro fridge people could not solve his problem fast enough.</p>
<p>As for the original topic, I don’t know if an actual rule has to be created especially if there is not going to be anyone that follows though and enforce the policy. On the other side, it could be possible that a tool like this could have been useful in dealing with roommate #1.</p>
<p>“I don’t know if an actual rule has to be created especially if there is not going to be anyone that follows though and enforce the policy.”</p>
<p>smoda61: You have summed it up perfectly. That is the reason why the specific rules are so easy to mock. Only a compete d-bag would bang a girl while your son was sleeping in the bunk above. Even an animal won’t vomit, pee or dump where it sleeps.
These are unenforceable rules because they defy sober common sense.</p>
<p>And just for the sake of fact checking - this is from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory website:</p>
<p>The following body fluids are not expected to be infectious sources of blood borne pathogens unless they are visibly contaminated with blood:</p>
<p>urine
feces
vomit
tears
sweat
sputum
nasal secretions</p>