Dorm Controversy at Ole Miss

Was tie dye and hippie EVER in at Ole Miss? :wink:

I’m sure things ebb and flow with time, as they always do, but its the kids in the next few years I’m thinking about with my comment.

@apprenticeprof Would these be the type of ostentatious crystal chandeliers you’re talking about?:

http://www.gridironbelles.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Grove-Country-Club.jpg

https://www.google.com/search?biw=1120&bih=552&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=%22ole+miss%22+%22the+grove%22+chandelier&oq=%22ole+miss%22+%22the+grove%22+chandelier&gs_l=img.3…18052.18052.0.18534.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0…0.0…0…1c.1.64.img…0.0.0.PcxAOXJeQXI

Since that look and feel for tailgating is so different from my northern Big 10 experience, I have to say that going to a tailgate at one of those schools is on my bucket list. Would be fun to experience once in my life.

Haven’t read this long thread, but my reaction on the first photo was looks nice but eh kind of boring especially with everything the same for both girls. But when I saw the second photo with the same curtains hung the same way, same identical bed lamps, same symmetrical small framed prints positioned just over the beds (evidently none of these kids have ever lived in california), same round foot stools, etc, I thought, creepy, this reminds me of that scene from A Wrinkle in Time when the heroine makes it to the alien city and notices that all the kids are bouncing their balls in synchrony.

Nothing wrong with those looks but I’d take my kid’s messy non-coordinated non-decorator room with many really interesting posters any day.

Thanks for the memory!

Pizza, I agree and have always wondered about tail-gating in the south. My sib’s first spouse’s dad was a prof at Ole Miss.

alh, I must have totally misunderstood your post, hence the flip response.

IMO people feel worse when a majority of people engage in an activity from which they are excluded, as opposed to being excluded from an ā€œeliteā€ minority. I’m curious to know how widespread this dorm decorating competition is at Ole Miss. The article mentions that it’s popular in certain dorms. Are these dorms higher priced housing options that the more affluent girls select? Is it widely known that girls from certain backgrounds choose these particular dorms? I can understand a poor student, or one who isn’t aware of the ā€œcompetitionā€, feeling left out if nearly everyone around them has an over the top room. However, large state schools tend to have a fair amount of economic diversity so it seems unlikely to me that a majority of students engage in this competition. I’m not familiar with Ole Miss though so I could be wrong.

ā€œThe article mentions that it’s popular in certain dorms. Are these dorms higher priced housing options that the more affluent girls select? Is it widely known that girls from certain backgrounds choose these particular dorms?ā€

Funnily enough, the dorm they’re talking about is NOT one of the fancier, newer, or higher-priced dorms. As I understand it, a lot of the students who plan to go Greek choose the most traditional dorms.

Actually, I saw a reference to some of these rooms being in Burns Hall which shows up as one of the more expensive dorms with a double rate of $5,900, more expensive than traditional dorms which are in the range of $4,900.

But, it doesn’t appear to be isolated to just one dorm.

Most of the ones I saw are in Martin, a traditional dorm. The room that went viral was in Martin. But you’re right, it’s not exclusive to one part of campus.

Traditional expressions of femininity – and competitive escalations thereof – have been around for quite a while at Ole Miss.

In my experience, more girls who rush as freshmen and would be apt to decorate their rooms like the girls in this thread actually choose the less expensive ā€œtraditionalā€ dorm set-up - two to a room - as opposed to the newer, more expensive apartment-style dorms specifically because they want the ā€œtraditionalā€ freshman dorm experience. The single-bedroom apartment style dorms have much less of this going on - that I saw at my university - than the traditional dorms. Just my experience

My D is in school on the west coast, if you alter anything , you may be subject to a fine. Decorations, etc are ok, but nothing can be removed, altered or replaced. After looking at http://hottytoddy.com/2016/08/19/posh-ole-miss-dorms-over-the-top-or-fabulous/
I ā€˜so’ like this policy. Keeps everything up to the kids, not the parents !!

I have never heard this expression hotty toddy. What does it mean? Is it related to a hot toddy (drink)?

ā€œIt’s not just the females who go all out. Actually, I like this guy’s style much better than the girls’ rooms.ā€

Yeah, but that guy went to Drew U., not Ole Miss. He just has a Mississippian fan base. If there’s any guy being admired for that kind of work at Ole Miss, I’ll be pretty psyched to hear about it.

My mistake. I assumed since they were talking about Ole Miss, he was an Ole Miss student. Now I’m bummed as I’d like to find an Ole Miss guys room done up. I saw one or two photos on a google search showing confederate flags as dorm decor though for guys’ rooms. :-S

Now with the mention of it really being Drew University, here’s the original article on the guy:
http://nymag.com/homedesign/spring2009/56426/

Apropos of nothing except the dorm room, I got some Ralph Lauren bedding in 2002 that my sisters hated so much, they had to make a Sex & the City reference to insult it properly: ā€œIt’s like Trey MacDougall’s study!ā€

Yes, yes it was. So is that dorm room at Drew. This kid was probably putting my comforter in every client’s master bedroom. I LOVE the tie display. Gorgeous. And how appropriate that his first professional commission was a yacht interior.

Aside: it is a real achievement to get voted preppiest in the class at Choate.

ā€œI have never heard this expression hotty toddy. What does it mean? Is it related to a hot toddy (drink)?ā€

It’s part of the Ole Miss football cheer. My tour guide told me that the origins are lost.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1609661-hotty-toddy-understanding-the-ole-miss-cheer-its-history-significance

Really like that guy’s room - a lot more style and individuality than those girls’ rooms.

@1andonly - My D’s school doesn’t allow students to remove any furniture or paint the walls. I recall S being able to bring his own desk chair (the wooden one the school provided was uncomfortable). The dorm had a storage room for furniture items students didn’t want.

The Drew room is pretty cool…it appears to be a single. we were allowed to paint our rooms in the dorm in college but we had to pick from the colors facilities had purchased…I think there were 4 choices.

@1andonly wrote

It was interesting looking at those dorms, because I saw a lot of inexpensive and cleverly repurposed thrift shop buys used (I have some friends who are designers who show up fairly regularly in decorating magazines, so I have a good eye for high low decorating). When I redid the girls’ rooms here at home a few years ago I used a lot of the same tricks that I see going on in the dorm rooms. I did not spend a lot of money.

However, I’d never advocating decorating the girls’ rooms like that in college for two reasons-one, I don’t like that the rooms were identical for each girl (I’d want each side to represent what the girl liked), and two, both my kids’ rooms generally look like a bomb went off in them, so you’d never see that cute fluffy rug, anyway. I think we’re going hyper-minimalist with their rooms so they’ll be able to get the door open.

@MotherOfDragons You came back! :smiley: