[net.college] Co-Ed dorms

jmsellens@watmath.UUCP (John M Sellens) (12/10/85)

In article <254@ius2.cs.cmu.edu> ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) writes:
>At MIT, 'co-ed' means there might be a girl living in the ROOM
>next to yours ...

Hmm - I was living at Glendon College (part of York University in
Toronto) about 5 years ago, and there were/are a number of floors
of mixed males/females sharing common washroom facilities.  True,
these floors have individual shower stalls within the common washrooms
since they were originally designed as "women's" floors.  And when
I started at Waterloo in 1977 they had a couple of floors organized
the same way, but these were eventually discontinued.  My experience
is that after the initial novelty wears off, it's not really any big
deal ...

Of course, as far as I know there are still "visiting hours" in one
or more of the church colleges affiliated with Waterloo.

John

ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) (12/12/85)

In article <393@watmath.UUCP> jmsellens@watmath.UUCP (John M Sellens) writes:
>In article <254@ius2.cs.cmu.edu> ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) writes:
>>At MIT, 'co-ed' means there might be a girl living in the ROOM
>>next to yours ...
>
>Hmm - I was living at Glendon College (part of York University in
>Toronto) about 5 years ago, and there were/are a number of floors
>of mixed males/females sharing common washroom facilities...

This was the default in our dorm, altough individual floors were free to
make whatever rules they felt like.  For example, one 'male' bathroom, one
'female', one undesignated (for whoever has to go worst)

Our particular floor was so brazen as to add a 'couples' indicator on our
homemade bathroom occupancy sign, (in addition to the stanard male and female
indicators).
					- Ralph