University Daily Kansan
Wednesday. August 21. 197
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Dorm Pairings a Problem
New students who plan to live in residence or scholarship halls face the often fearful experience of coping with one or more roommates.
Instead of hapazharzy throwing new students together, various scholarship halls take great pains to see that students will get along.
Anne Thompson, resident director of Miller Hall, said an elected officer was in charge of communicating with girls who would be living in the hall. This officer finds it difficult to determine preferences of the girls and tries to place those with similar characteristics together.
"Before this is done, however, girls who have already lived in the hall are allowed to pick their roommates and rooms on the basis of seniority," Thompson said.
Thompson said the number of girls in a room varied from two to four depending upon the size of the room. These rooms are usually the girls sleep in a sleeping room.
"The combinations are usually successful," Thompson said. "When girls have problems we encourage them to work them up." The same changes are often made at semester time.
Scott Smith, a third-year resident of Battenfell Hall, said that the proctor decided who roomed together, but requests from former residents were honored.
Ron Karlin, proctor of Pearson Hall, said his hall had an entirely different system.
Pearson has two-man rooms and no dormitory. Former residents get their pick of roommates and can keep the room they lived in the previous year.
Karlin said that before the new school year, he sent letters asking students about major fields of interest and where they were neat or messy. The system, Karlin said, has been successful during the year he has lived in the scholarship-hall
Roommate preference is decided on a less personal basis in University residence
Lerne Grunz, assistant dean of women,
said all students were given a preference as to
what room they would be provided there was room. They have a choice between male, female or coeducational halls. Interest in coed halls decreased in the past few years, Grunz said.
Residents are allowed to select their own roommates, Grunz said. Wing and floor preferences are considered. Requests concerning age, smoking and drinking habits and studying habits also are taken into account.
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"Discriminatory preferences involving race or religion aren't allowed." Gruzn乒
Grunz said that in her opinion the main problems in picking roommates concerned putting people together who were tidy or quiet or noisy and early or late risers.
Grunz described further selection of roommates as a "controlled random
"We never put people from the same high school or the same hometown together because we assume that if they wanted to be roommates they would have requested each other," Grunz said. "We try to avoid putting the same type of people on a wing."
"For example, we avoid putting on the same wing a bunch of people who went to the same high school," she said. "What we are trying for is a heterogeneous group that will allow students to learn from one another while they are living together."
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