Coed residence halls give UA students, incoming freshmen a choice
Bailey McBride
Issue date: 2/6/09 Section: News
Though most students choose their residence hall based on location and style, the gender of the other residents also plays a role in many students' decisions, as every hall at the UA campus has different rules.
Currently on campus there are 14 different options for students when it comes to housing. These range from four-bedroom apartments on Duncan Avenue to traditional residence halls such as Pomfret, Yocum and Reid.
Students can also choose from a variety of different suite- style options in Maple Hill and the Northwest Quad.
Each one of these different housing options comes with a different set of rules when it comes to opposite-sex visitation.
Reid Hall and Gibson Hall are both all-female residences. The ladies of Gibson and Reid must escort male guests at all times, and they should be out of the building by 3 a.m. during the week. Whenever a male visitor needs to use the bathroom in an all-girls hall, his female escort must check the bathroom for any other girls and then guard the door while he is inside.
"I just like the Gibson dorm, but I would really rather it be coed," said Rosalyn Taylor, a sophomore Gibson resident. "It's nice, though. It's usually pretty quiet and the girls are nice - but it doesn't necessarily smell nice all the time like you might assume."
Though there are two all- female residence halls, there are no all-male halls.
Some freshman dorms, such as Pomfret, have single-sex floors. These floors generally have a curfew for visitors of the opposite sex, set at 2 a.m. during the week and 3 a.m. on the weekends.
"I chose to live where I do just because I wanted to live in Pomfret, and that ended up meaning that I live on an all- male floor," said David Cox, a freshman from Tulsa, Okla.
Cox noted that he has never been in trouble for breaking this curfew, and the only time he had heard of anyone getting into trouble was when they were also in violation of another rule, such as an alcohol violation.
Currently on campus there are 14 different options for students when it comes to housing. These range from four-bedroom apartments on Duncan Avenue to traditional residence halls such as Pomfret, Yocum and Reid.
Students can also choose from a variety of different suite- style options in Maple Hill and the Northwest Quad.
Each one of these different housing options comes with a different set of rules when it comes to opposite-sex visitation.
Reid Hall and Gibson Hall are both all-female residences. The ladies of Gibson and Reid must escort male guests at all times, and they should be out of the building by 3 a.m. during the week. Whenever a male visitor needs to use the bathroom in an all-girls hall, his female escort must check the bathroom for any other girls and then guard the door while he is inside.
"I just like the Gibson dorm, but I would really rather it be coed," said Rosalyn Taylor, a sophomore Gibson resident. "It's nice, though. It's usually pretty quiet and the girls are nice - but it doesn't necessarily smell nice all the time like you might assume."
Though there are two all- female residence halls, there are no all-male halls.
Some freshman dorms, such as Pomfret, have single-sex floors. These floors generally have a curfew for visitors of the opposite sex, set at 2 a.m. during the week and 3 a.m. on the weekends.
"I chose to live where I do just because I wanted to live in Pomfret, and that ended up meaning that I live on an all- male floor," said David Cox, a freshman from Tulsa, Okla.
Cox noted that he has never been in trouble for breaking this curfew, and the only time he had heard of anyone getting into trouble was when they were also in violation of another rule, such as an alcohol violation.
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