THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. 2008
SEX ON THE HILL
3C
SHARING SPACE, DOING THE DEED JUST GOT DIFFICULT
BY BETH BEAVERS bbeavers@kansan.com
Sharing a 12-by-12 room is not pleasant for anyone, and it doesn't make having sex any easier, either.
For someone living on campus, there are obstacles for getting some action that may not be a problem for someone living off campus.
Photo illustration by Ryan McGeeney/KANSAN
Having a roommate is a major obstacle to tackle. It's not uncommon to see hats, socks or hairties on doorknobs, meaning the roommate is getting some inside. But many roommates find setting boundaries and having rules helps.
Vanessa Ceballos, Chicago freshman, and her roommate decided there would be no sex in their room.
"Both of our beds are lofted and I don't want to look over and see them wrestling under the sheets." Ceballos said.
Patience is the key for some students. Having a roommate who frequently goes home on the weekends makes things easier.
But others, like Nick Fratta, St. Louis freshman, aren't patient enough to wait for their roommates to leave.
"I have a girlfriend who lives out of town, but when she comes into town I make my roommate sleep on the futon in the common room," he said.
Some are unlucky enough to get a hermit-like roommate, which means getting busy in their room is not going to happen very often.
Nathan Hutchcraft, Lenexa sophomore, had that misfortune last year. "My roommate last year never left, so I had to find interesting places," he said.
Popular locales include the floor lobbies and the showers. Some students who live in Hashinger Hall choose the practice rooms, which include locks on the door and are sound proof
another bonus.
There are also other things to worry about besides roommates. Many beds are lofted, which means they are high off the ground. On top of that, the beds are also very narrow, making the threat of falling out of bed very likely.
"I don't have a roommate this semester, but the beds are still squeaky" Hutchcraft said.
One creative solution many abide by is simply moving the mattress to the floor.
Managing to have sex with one roommate is hard enough, but for the women of Miller and Watkins scholarship halls, the task is much harder. While the women who live in Miller and Watkins halls share a room with one other roommate, rooms have only a closet and desk
and are primarily used for study ing.
Instead of normal bedrooms, Miller Watkins halls have sleeping porches, which are rooms where between 40 to 50 women sleep every night.
And the rules listed outside of the sleeping porch in Miller Hall make it clear that having sex on a bed is next to impossible: "NO
NO NO males in the porches.
EVER!!!! (Not even to come wake
you up. Not even your brother,
sorry)"
Jill Lock, Chanute senior, is in her fifth year of living in Watkins Hall. She's seen and heard the stories; even the one about the girl who got walked in on getting busy in the TV room.
And she sees the freshman
girls giggling in the hallway at the noises coming from the room of someone with a couch.
"We have seven different kitchens and they do have locks on the doors, so there have been several instances of people having sex on the kitchen tables where you eat every night," she said.
Edited by Brieun Scott
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