<p>Currently Duke keeps its dorm bathrooms locked, and you need your bathroom key to get into the one on your hall. Due to popular request, though, a vote has been set up to decide whether the bathrooms will be kept locked or unlocked.</p>
<p>What do your colleges do? Are there disadvantages to having the bathroom unlocked?</p>
<p>Ironically just about a half an hour ago these kids came into my bathroom and broke one of the stalls…</p>
<p>Our bathrooms are kept unlocked at Northwestern. We haven’t had anything bad happen related to bathrooms being unlocked. Public bathrooms are often unlocked. Nothing wrong there.</p>
<p>Why would they ever be locked?</p>
<p>To keep people that don’t belong there out.</p>
<p>beck86nj- they used to be kept unlocked, but a couple of years ago a guy hid in a girls’ bathroom and ambushed a girl. Since then, they’ve been locked.</p>
<p>my sister’s college has them locked (which is quite annoying during little sibs weekend ;))</p>
<p>Ours are unlocked. However all girls’ shower stalls and bathroom stalls in my building (not sure about other buildings) are true stalls with locks because a few years ago they did have an issue with a guy ambushing girls while they were in the shower. At the time the showers had curtains.</p>
<p>Ours have locks (and are supposed to be locked) but we put tape over them, because it’s a pain to need your key. Basically, they recommend locking because on weekends, random people will come in and puke all over the bathroom and since the custodians don’t work on weekends, that’s pretty nasty. However, when they were locked, someone tried to get in the bathroom, couldn’t get in, andpuked all over the hall in front of the door. I’d personally rather have it in the bathroom.</p>
<p>locks are dumb. i was gonna say it would be nice cuz of last night:
First my buddy walked into the bathroom to crap, and 4 girls were puking in all 4 stalls. (we’re guys, and we don’t really mind girls using our bathroom, but it does immediately suggest that they don’t belong) And then later on, one of my floormates friends puked in the sink and made a huge mess everywhere.</p>
<p>But then I thought, if the doors were locked all that puke could very well be in the hallway. I’m just gonna go up a couple floors to shower and pee until the crap gets cleaned up, and if we had locks i couldn’t do that. </p>
<p>Get rid of 'em</p>
<p>in my specific dorm they’re private, so none of the problems listed above go.</p>
<p>but in the other dorms here, they’re unlocked but the stalls and whatnot all lock. no real security problems here either, you have to swipe a key card and enter a code to get into the floor so its pretty secure.</p>
<p>lol RaboKarabekian</p>
<p>warblersrule86,</p>
<p>that seems like the wrong solution. If someone is assulting people in the bathrooms, arrest the people and kick them out of school, don’t lock the bathrooms. If two people get in a fight at a club, don’t close the club, ban the people who were fighting.</p>
<p>At my school, the people in the dorm are responsible for any guests that they have, especially if the guests don’t go to the school. You need a swipe key to get into a dorm, and after midnight you can only get in if you live in that dorm, or obviously if someone from the dorm lets you in. Unlocked bathrooms is definitely the way to go. If you have a friend over in your room, they need you to be their bathroom buddy, sounds kinda ridiculous to me.</p>
<p>at teh university of iowa, i found it funny that the girls bathrooms were locked while the guys bathrooms werent lockedd…basically, the reasoning was that girls are more likely to get rapped or walked in on than guys and i actually felt a lot safer with the locked bathrooms because u dont know what type of pervs lurk around college dorms…</p>
<p>in my dorm, all of the hallways are set up outdoors.</p>
<p>so, locked bathrooms it is.</p>
<p>it’s a hassle because if I’m gonna be puking, I’d rather just reach for my own garbage can than try to get a door unlocked (note: I haven’t actually thrown up since coming to college)</p>
<p>what do you mean by “set up outdoors” morada?</p>
<p>it’s sort of like a motel.
you open the door and experience the outdoors rather than an air-conditioned hallway.</p>
<p>good times, walking to and from the showers when it’s 40 degrees out.</p>
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<p>this just keeps the societal double standard going…</p>
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Doesn’t make it any less true.</p>