Students say apartment living gives privacy
By SUZANNE ATKINS
Kansan Staff Writer
The worst thing about dorm living—so say many students who have moved out of KU residence halls into apartments—is each other.
Or, as one student put it, being in a residence hall is "like living in one continuous party."
Information compiled last fall by George B. Smith, vice-chancellor for institutional planning at KU, shows that 38.6 or 6,363 persons of the student body, the largest "housing preference group," lived off campus in rooms or apartments in Lawrence.
An apartment gets you "away from the rat race," said one senior.
Freedom from others can be either an advantage or a disadvantage, as Lawrence graduate
liked having to do their own cooking.
The cost of an apartment and its distance from the campus can also be restrictive, one student said. "As well as poor plumbing—stopped-up jons!" she added.
A number of students who have moved out of dormitories said nothing could induce them to
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move back in. One senior pointed out that it would be very difficult for the dorms to change the one thing she found most odious—the lack of privacy.
Miss Combest suggested one
A couple of KU men have ventured into apartment living, have apparently discovered a few of the sorrows that accompany the joys of leaving residence halls behind.
student Jane Combesht pointed out. "If you want company, you've got to go look for it. If you like to be alone, you are alone. Sometimes, however, you get 'to much into yourself.' You've got to depend on yourself to get yourself turned on."
Besides more privacy, students liked being able to eat what and when they wanted to, but, on the other side of the coin, many dis-
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improvement in the present dorm set-up would be to put round tables in the cafeterias in place of the long ones. "It is almost impossible not to relate to each other at round tables," she said.
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Janet Sue Neeley, Galesburg, Ia., senior, said the dorm she had lived in was "great as far as dorms go—coed with open houses all the time—but you can't do that much with a dorm." It's very hard, she said, to fight "fifty girls running in and out."
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Additional statistics taken by Smith indicated that last fall 32.4 per cent of the 16,482 persons of the KU student body were living in university owned housing.
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A total of 15.5 per cent lived in fraternity and sorority houses. Smith also found that 2.6 per cent of the students lived with their parents in the city and 3 per cent were housed in a private dormitory.
Despite the growing popularity of apartment living, KU residence halls were about 95 per cent full last fall, Smith said.
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