<p>I heard that dykstra has a christian floor that all the people from the religous groups on campus live on. I’m living in dykstra next year and I’d just like to know if i’m on that floor or not. does anybody know what floor it is?</p>
<p>it was D5 last year. i think it’s going to be 7 for 2010/11 if you don’t plan on being sucked into their club, get off their floor because they definitely impinge on the social scene. </p>
<p>I lived there last year and they were very nice people and tried to be welcoming at first but theyre also very clique-y and (I feel) very judgmental if you’re not a member of their group.</p>
<p>are you sure its the 7th floor?</p>
<p>uh i’m not sure what you mean by “christian floor that all the people from the religious groups on campus live on” but i know that members of some of the christian fellowships on campus tend to live together sophomore year (luckily, not mine!) using upperclassmen housing registration passes to ensure that everyone in the fellowship can live on the same floor or whatnot. for example, Intervarsity is whoring up Sproul 4N this coming year. they have 80+ people, from what i hear. is this what you’re talking about?</p>
<p>Yeah… um… I’m Gay >>…and was interested in Dykstra if/when I transfer in 2011… I’d kind of like to avoid “Christian floors” if I could. I’m Christian too but… it just doesn’t auger well to me.</p>
<p>By “impinge on the social scene” you mean exactly what I think you mean, right?</p>
<p>My friend was on a christian floor this year and i visited her there a lot. she said they were pretty friendly, but they do tend to hang out with themselves towards the middle and end of the year on the floor. My best advice is if you do end up on one of those floors just treat them with respect for their lifestyles and they should do the same for you.</p>
<p>I also lived on dykstra 5 this last year, which was one of these “religious floors”. Here’s the details, it’s a Christian group, that is, it is one christian group from campus which chooses to live together. They are very accepting of everyone at first and are nice to a lot of people, but at the same time they use that openness to recruit more people to their group. If you’re not in their group by winter quarter, they probably won’t associate with you.</p>
<p>no, i’m not sure it’s the 7th floor in dykstra. i know a lot of intervarsity (the group i was referring to) is moving to sproul as was mentioned by someone else but some are staying in dykstra. </p>
<p>by impinge, i didn’t mean anything serious. no tattling to RA’s (not that they’d do anything anyway)or anything but they would act really ****y when people were loud in the halls or in the lounge late at night. and i heard a few judgmental comments every once in a while but…nothing too horrible. they just seem to have this…annoying omnipresence due to their strength in numbers…but they stop being pushy after fall quarter and mostly keep to themselves after.</p>
<p>intervarsity has community floors in all the major halls every year. so they’ll be in reiber, hedrick, dykstra, and sproul. not sure about the others, but I know for sure that sproul 4 and 6 south are intervarsity community floors (which means they pretty much all coordinated it so that they all live together on the same floor and so can do “outreach” to new ppl) so don’t be surprised if you live on these floors if there’s a knock on your door 0 week inviting you to events. as for dyktra, I think last year the community floor was 5 but it could change and for hedrick last year it was 3.
They are nice people, but like what previous ppl said, they do judge a bit and if you don’t really hang out with them, they are a bit clique-y. on the community floors, intervarsity arranges it so that there are community rooms where bible studies and other events are held every week and there’s a full time staff member from intervarsity in charge of every building
I have some friends in intervarsity and i actually went to their housing meeting two quarters ago where they planned all this out. it’s kind of creepy, but then again there’s not much you can do to avoid it. just keep to yourself and ignore them if you don’t want any interaction. because of these living arrangements, they are really successful at converting a lot of people every year.</p>
<p>Because Christians definitely need to stay together in groups. They are a vastly outnumbered and repressed people.</p>
<p>well, I also lived on 5 this past year… weird so many of us are on here. I would echo the sentiment of dashgirl up there… at first they were nice to rally as many members as possible, and basically convinced the members of the floor this was a norm. I went to a few gatherings they put together, and they made me feel welcome. When i stopped going i literally got a cold shoulder from a lot of them. I felt really unwelcomed…</p>
<p>Just curious, how tolerant/friendly are they on those floors to non-christians, in particular pastafarians and others who believe organized religion is a terrible idea?</p>
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<p>I’m sure if they are unfriendly you can simply tell them that you hope the almighty FSM extends his noodly appendage and touches their hearts to become more welcoming towards others. But yea I doubt they’d be too welcoming to Pastafarians lol.</p>
<p>I lived on an IV floor, but in Hedrick.</p>
<p>They’re very friendly to everyone, Pastafarians included. In my experience, the only thing that changes if they find out you don’t believe in God is that they get more consistent in inviting you to dinner and Catalyst and retreats and stuff. Just politely decline… they’ll accept your decline but will undoubtedly ask again the next week and the next week and the next week.</p>