<p>Are the Hartley/Wallach Suite Dorms allowed to have Cable in the single rooms. Or Do all of the suitemates have to battle over one TV…?</p>
<p>no cable provided in the rooms</p>
<p>However, I lived in a Wallach suite this year, and I never had to fight anyone for the TV. First of all, there’s not as much time to watch TV in college as there is in high school. Secondly, rarely was there ever more than 3-4 people in the suite at one time (out of 10-14 people). Same goes for bathrooms, I might add – I never had to fight anyone for the showers.</p>
<p>I loved living in Wallach this year, even though it was my third choice. It’s not as crowded as it sounds (and I’ve heard worst complaints from friends about their roommates).</p>
<p>You can’t get cable from the rooms, but you’re certainly allowed to split the cable line off from the lounge and run a wire into your room. Lots of us did that. </p>
<p>The reason I got my own TV was to avoid having to fight over the TV with other people. All it takes is one other person who is watching something else you don’t want to watch; it isn’t like 6 people need to be there before it becomes a problem.</p>
<p>i think having tv in ur room is a huge distraction and if you are actually paying for it then its a complete waste of money…in my opinion</p>
<p>It’s only a distraction if you make it a distraction. If you just want it to watch things you want to watch so you don’t have to fight over a communal TV, and end up watching no more TV than you ordinarily would, it’s fine.</p>
<p>It’s what? 25 bucks a month, and you get HBO? Pretty cheap entertainment if you ask me. Movies in NYC are $11-12.</p>
<p>its closer to 30 a month and its alot considering the amount of tv u wont be watching…and it depends on ur personality whether its a distraction but i think that most people tend to procrastinate in college and a tv in the room would just facilitate it.</p>
<p>Columbia 2002, how do split the line? and secondly how do you run a wire into your room?</p>
<p>In the dorms which do get cable, is it an all or nothing deal, or can you get basic cable for free? Or if you bring a TV but don’t want to pay for cable do you have to get an antenna?</p>
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<p>You get a $5 splitter at any Best Buy or Circuit City. You buy a 100 foot cable and run it from the wall to your room.</p>
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<p>Not sure what this means, but I’ll answer based on what I think you mean. If there’s a cable jack in your dorm room, you can pay the fee and get the full Columbia TV cable package. If you don’t pay, you get nothing at all. You’d have to bring an antenna if you didn’t want to pay.</p>
<p>Splitting the cable is technically against the rules (I’ll look it up if someone questions that, but I’m pretty positive), but I did see someone do it this year. If your RA happens to be super strict, you may not be permitted to keep it though.</p>
<p>antenna reception is terrible in columbia dorms</p>
<p>i second that</p>
<p>So then I guess that you can’t get just the cable wire without a cable box in your dorm room (without splitting the wire from the common room) and not pay anything. Oh well. I guess there are always DVD’s for those few unoccupied time blocks at Columbia.</p>
<p>yes, there is…noone said there isnt…it has only been said that ur RA might get ****ed but i doubt that would happen.</p>
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<p>Everyone does it. Also, if you get a strict RA, you can just pay for it for the lounge and split it yourself.</p>
<p>In our Claremont suite we discovered a random cable hanging from the ceiling. We split it, hooked it up and all had free (basic) cable. Major networks plus NYC public access and a lot of Spanish and Chinese stuff. </p>
<p>The difference is that Claremont is on the University Apartment Housing (UAH) system versus the University Residence Housing (URH) one, though still an undergrad dorm. It was a nice loophole, though I guess the people without random hanging wires had to contact TimeWarner individually…</p>
<p>Nice. There were also people in Schapiro who broke into the switches and turned things on themselves.</p>