<p>My son attends a large state university. This year he is living in a suite. He has informed us that the school does not supply toilet paper because he is in a suite. I found that hard to believe since we are paying close to six thousand a year for his room. I called the housing office and was told that my son is correct, toilet paper is not supplied to those living in suites. Just curious, is this standard practice for suite style dorms.</p>
<p>Toilet paper is expensive.</p>
<p>In suites, the care and supply of the bathroom is generally the responsibility of the suite residents. I think this policy evolved because the custodians would have to go through student rooms to get to the bathrooms, which everyone considered objectionable. And of course, as a bonus, it costs the university less if they don’t clean or supply the suite bathrooms.</p>
<p>and they don’t clean the bathrooms usually either</p>
<p>having more space and privacy perhaps is worth suckng it up and buying TP</p>
<p>Guys don’t use much toilet paper anyway. Way less than girls.</p>
<p>I think it’s a complete rip-off that at my son’s school they don’t clean the suite bathrooms - and the suites cost more than a regular double room!</p>
<p>Wow, that’s surprising. It seems there should be a “central supply” for T.P. and cleaning products. Can you imagine what a chore cleaning the bathroom must be, when there are 4 or 6 or 8 suitemates? No thanks!</p>
<p>If you think about it, it’s like a regional marketing test.</p>
<p>Schools are testing the waters to guage the amount of consumer reaction.</p>
<p>The first level of expansion is into the non-suite dorms.</p>
<p>The next, the academic buildings. </p>
<p>Finally, the public spaces. </p>
<p>Paper will only be available in vending machines in each bathroom, at exhorbitant cost.</p>
<p>Or an additional line item fee on the tuition bill labeled “Hygene fee” will appear. Consumers will have to “absorb” the cost so to speak.</p>
<p>Faculty/staff bathrooms will be key accessible only.</p>
<p>Only a matter of time. Don’t say I didn’t warn you… ;)</p>
<p>Last year my D was in a 6-girl suite. They had to clean and supply tp for their bathroom - thankfully they were a pretty neat bunch. The suite bathrooms were all cleaned over winter break by the custodians, but that’s it. This year she’s on a regular hallway and the bathrooms are cleaned for them. She likes that much better!</p>
<p>One of things DD found a delightful surprise at Rice was that the bathrooms in her college are cleaned and restocked weekly in the suites. She was ready to have to deal with it herself after her brothers’ experiences. </p>
<p>So lack of TP not universal, but far more common.</p>
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<p>Seems a little skimpy to me.</p>
<p>“People generally in life will take what you give them.” </p>
<p>But it does underscore my point. Latex gloves and soap at a $1/each are next ;)</p>
<p>Just think of the bottled water market. Nowhere near the profit center it was a decade ago.</p>
<p>Maybe I wasted my talents; I don’t even have an MBA. ;)</p>
<p>One of my kids lived in apartments style dorms her freshman and sophomore years. Four girls shared the dorm apartment with its own bathroom. Nobody at the college cleaned it for them. However, they had access to bathroom tissue and garbage bags, etc. provided by the school.</p>
<p>Our freshman S is in a tripled double, but there’s a bathroom within it. Although I was fierce to teach S’s many domestic tasks my own brothers and H skipped (ironing, mending, cooking, vacuuming…) it never occurred to me to teach him how to clean a bathroom properly. At this point, it would be better if he had some army training because at least he’d know what to do with Lysol. </p>
<p>It was funny watching these 3 boys unpack. My kid had all these unopened and unfamiliar cleaning products. Another boy came in with 5 cans of Fabreze which he understood as the solution. The third boy just stared.</p>
<p>Now I’m glad I live 3,000 miles away and can’t possibly visit.</p>
<p>No tp in suite-style dorms - standard practice.</p>
<p>LY I enjoyed looking at and using DS’ suite-style private bath on move-in day. I was quite certain I would not ever want to see it again. I’m told I was right :p.</p>
<p>TY I was pleasantly surprised on move-in day to see that his (different) roommate had stocked rubber gloves, cleaning products, sponges etc. On the inevitable trip to Target for needed items, DS opted for disposable toilet bowl brushes, his own rubber gloves and a couple of additional cleaning products. I then gave him my verbal tutorial in bathroom cleaning techniques, which he had rejected as unnecessary and uninteresting last year :o. Since he has been doing his own laundry for years, I figure there’s an actual chance he might do some of this.</p>
<p>I still think I will send an Advance Man in before I re-visit the private loo, if I ever get the opportunity. :D</p>
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<p>First it will be 5 sheets of 3-ply - but they’ll wean it down to 1-ply, just watch! Pretty soon we’ll be looking for Sears Catalogues.</p>
<p>Juilliard’s dorms are all suites - 2 singles and 3 doubles with a living room and 2 bathrooms. They have mandatory rotating cleaning duties – room deposit is docked if you don’t do your part. But I think tp is provided. This particular S doesn’t mind a bit. His chore of choice at home (and at camps) has always been to clean bathrooms. It is one of many traits that I have no idea where he got. When he is home, his room is a disaster, he can go without doing laundry for weeks on end, and change sheets perhaps never, but the bathrooms are always clean.</p>
<p>They didn’t supply TP in suites when I was in college either. For the reasons stated. It’s a small price to pay for not sharing a bathroom with the rest of the floor. And a good lesson in taking care of one’s needs. They should also know how to clean a bathroom by the time they’re in college. If not, a great time to learn.</p>
<p>At my S’s school, the custodians clean the suite bathrooms and supply the TP but the suite rooms are not connected to the bathroom which is prob. the difference. Each suite is a short hall with two (two person) rooms on each side and a bathroom at the end.</p>
<p>It’s funny how I looked at a “private bathroom” as a true amenity, with the only downside being having to clean it ourselves.</p>
<p>DS, who does have a private bathroom for a 2-person suite, sees it as a downside (although he still wanted the privacy of a room in a suite in a nice building). He figures he’s out in the cold if the other guy is using the loo when he wants to; not a problem with a common lav. Who knew?</p>
<p>I think the vast majority of colleges do not supply TP in suite type dorms. Not that big a deal. :)</p>