<p>Correction: the fire alarms (at least in 1938) will not go off unless you start an extremely smokey bonfire under them. Smoking is permitted in the rooms, but at the beginning of the year, the RA’s will make you and your roommates write up a housing contract, and in that contract you can ban smoking in the room if you so choose (the contract covers everything from rooming arrangements to cleaning schedules to sex in the shower). There is a spot on the housing form that asks if you would mind a smoking roommate. My suite has a self-imposed smoking ban and one of my roommates actually spazzed out when another one came in with a clove cigarette, but one of the guy suites next door has … 3 or 4 smokers who all smoke in the room, and one of them brought a hookah that they do break out on a regular basis. They haven’t set off the fire alarms yet, so I’m pretty sure nobody can.</p>
<p>I’m in the MechE department, living in an 8-girl suite in good ole Wilson College, and thorougly bored at home, so fire away.</p>