Substance Free Housing at Brown

Uroogla
Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:41:00 +0000

Surprised I missed this thread, because I normally check out the subforums. bruno14 has given a very good answer about sub-free, but a couple other points are worth making. Particularly freshman year, there’s no guarantee that everyone there has that like mentality. There exist people (not necessarily many, but generally a couple) who are on the floor against their will (often because parents signed them up against their will). There were several parties with alcohol on my floor freshman year. One was broken up and the person whose room it was got in trouble. Even this year, in an upperclassman sub-free floor, there was some drinking or coming back drunk. Admittedly, we were as a whole fine with that behavior as long as it was infrequent and didn’t disturb others.

I know much less about single sex housing, but it too tends to be a floor in a building. Some colleges separate genders by floor as a rule, providing limited or no cross-gender access. In that sense, Brown’s not offering a novel experience, and there are no rules about the opposite gender being on the floor or in the rooms. An all-male floor my freshman year was in Andrews. They seemed to be very social, though I got the impression not all of them were happy being on a single sex floor.