A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Neighborhood associations strongly oppose a proposed apartment building at 828 Greene because, among other reasons, it would be “a mini-dorm…without benefit of rules.”
Neighborhood associations strongly oppose a proposed apartment building at 828 Greene because, among other reasons, it would be “a mini-dorm…without benefit of rules.”
Rules? I’d hate to be the one to break it to them: The days of in loco parentis are over.
posted by Anna on November 17th, 2004 at 6:03 pmare there any rules to living in a dorm?? The last person I knew who lived in a dorm, the only thing they couldn’t do was smoke pot in thier room, they got around this by blowing the smoke into a paper towl tube filled with dryer sheets.
Anyone know other rules besides no pot smoking?
posted by Just a Voice on November 17th, 2004 at 10:22 pmWell, no drinking (unless you are 21), quiet hours, no bloody fistfighting, etc. The usual… indeed, though, they tend to be either underenforced/snuck around easily.
Although, I have friends who went to colleges with rules that literally regulated that when having a visitor of the opposite sex in one’s room, at least one foot must remain on the floor and the door must be open a crack. So… in loco parentis isn’t quite over everywhere, even if it is at UM.
posted by Brandon on November 17th, 2004 at 11:05 pmSpring Arbor?
posted by Dale on November 18th, 2004 at 10:48 amCalvin.
posted by Brandon on November 18th, 2004 at 12:35 pmWhen I lived in the dorms (a long time ago and at EMU), the rules were rarely enforced except for perhaps quiet hours. So I’m not quite sure what those folks are getting at.
As for student vs. regular people apartments, there is nothing in any of the leases that I’ve ever signed that says you have to be a student to live in a certain apartment. So again, not sure what they are getting at.
posted by Kozzie on November 18th, 2004 at 12:39 pmIn lockup parentis? The last time I toured the State Prison of Southern Michigan in Jackson, some years ago, I saw many inmates wearing t-shirts with the Spring Arbor College logo. Apparently at the time, the college offered programs inside the prison.
posted by Larry Kestenbaum on November 18th, 2004 at 10:48 pm