Another move in, then sue about the rules lawsuit

you don't seem to understand how things are this day-n-age .... if something doesn't suit you regardless of the situation all you have to do is sue to get things changed to what you want...

This is one I can actually understand. They need to have at least one non co-ed floor, IMHO. Although, it is a private institution, yada yada yada.

why didn't she just go to the schools ombudsman instead of filing a law suit...

She seems daffy.

Datsun1500 wrote:

mtn wrote: This is one I can actually understand. They need to have at least one non co-ed floor, IMHO.

There were no non co-ed floors. She knew that before coming to the school. No one made her go to that school.

Eh, still I'm gonna side with her on this one. Maybe she shouldn't have taken it as far as she did... just the college housing probably would have done... but at least in my case I decided to go to the school, committed to the school, and months later I got the paperwork for where I was going to live. I can fully understand how she wouldn't know that all the floors were co-ed until a month before she was to move in.

I'm betting she went to ombudsmen and whatever first.

I've gotta say, I didn't know that "co-ed" meant shared bathrooms. I just thought it meant the residence had boyses and girlses.

I lived off-campus in a house with a couple of friends. I don't remember what my dorm-living friends had to deal with in terms of bathrooms.

Didn't read what you signed?

Did the girl complain or the Dad?

What did she expect? It's a modern day college dorm. If you don't see at least one person streaking naked down the hallway a semester you are doing it wrong!

That being said I think colleges should give people choices so they can be comfortable. Where I went there was everything from an all female dorm to hippie co-ops that didn't have curtains on the coed showers. (I dated some girls that lived in both types of places and I can tell you which ones were more fun :) -but that's getting off topic.

Weiler's father, Ron Weiler, told The Burlington Free Press that school officials agreed to label the bathroom on her floor "female" but males continue to use it. A college spokesman declined to comment.

I'm going to side with the gal. The school apparently even recognized it's a problem, but hasn't managed to do anything solid to fix it.

Of all the colleges I went to, visited friends at, or toured, all of the dorm halls were coed (unless it was a single-gender school). None of them had coed bathrooms though. That's just a little odd.

If I were the school, I would have listened to her seriously, even before she brought the suit. I bet she's not the only person uncomfortable with coed bathrooms.

She may have requested different housing and not received it--and she wouldn't have known her housing assignment until well after she committed to attending the school. Before my freshman year I specifically requested not to be housed on a fraternity floor of the dorm (small school, the frat chapters were too small to have their own houses). So naturally I got assigned to a fraternity floor. What was I going to do, request my non-refundable tuition deposit back?

She needs to calm down.

At least a couple of the guys in her dorm will probably see her naked before the year is out anyway.

-ducks-

Shawn

Eh, details are too sketchy and few to have a real opinion on this right now. I put off making this post for a while now, because I very strongly agree that blaming and suing and not being responsible for your own butt is infuriating. But I don't know if this school requires you to stay on campus a minimum of a year or what (plenty do). A lot of schools, like mtn mentioned, don't even let you choose where you want to live (or let you know until it's way too late). And I know how generally E36 M3ty dorms can be, and how the school won't give a crap to fix anything. Complain all you like and the school either won't hear it, or they won't care.

JeepinMatt wrote: Complain all you like and the school either won't hear it, or they won't care.

Dingdingdingdingding we have a winner. I could go into stories from my own experience (that is ongoing) for hours, but I'll just say that they are only in it to make money.

mtn wrote:

JeepinMatt wrote: Complain all you like and the school either won't hear it, or they won't care.

I could go into stories from my own experience (that is ongoing) for hours...

Someone around here will have to make a thread on dorm life sooner or later. I've mentioned mine a few times before, but I could fill up the better part of a day with ranting about when I lived in a dorm in college. I don't think I've met anyone who's said they had a great dorm, but I don't quite think everybody lived in a gulag like mine. I could have done without people throwing stuff at me through a hole in the wall while I slept, but I'll save the full stories for said thread

Trans_Maro wrote: She needs to calm down. At least a couple of the guys in her dorm will probably see her naked before the year is out anyway. -ducks- Shawn

Those poor guys...

Facebook, it's good for something!

Nice e-detectiving .

JeepinMatt wrote: Someone around here will have to make a thread on dorm life sooner or later. I've mentioned mine a few times before, but I could fill up the better part of a day with ranting about when I lived in a dorm in college. I don't think I've met anyone who's said they had a great dorm, but I don't quite think everybody lived in a gulag like mine. I could have done without people throwing stuff at me through a hole in the wall while I slept, but I'll save the full stories for said thread

it is a shame that your dorm life experience is so terrible .... I guess things have really changed in 40+ yrs it's been since I was in college... shoot I've stayed in motels that were worse than the dorm at my college....

the biggest problems I had "back then" were the demerits (I know that doesn't compute to this generation) we got if our hair touched our ears, if our sideburns went below mid ear, or if we missed chapel , or failed to attend church at least 3 times each month...

I don't mind sharing a bathroom with guys... but a flimsy shower curtain? C'mon. That's a bit much.

JeepinMatt wrote: Someone around here will have to make a thread on dorm life sooner or later. I've mentioned mine a few times before, but I could fill up the better part of a day with ranting about when I lived in a dorm in college. I don't think I've met anyone who's said they had a great dorm, but I don't quite think everybody lived in a gulag like mine. I could have done without people throwing stuff at me through a hole in the wall while I slept, but I'll save the full stories for said thread

I actually had good dorm rooms. Never as nice as living in a real house or apartment, but generally spacious and private enough. Helped that I only actually had a roommate for one semester.

I spent two and a-half years at CSU Monterey Bay. I was an RA there for two. The school is on Fort Ord, and all the residence facilities were converted quarters. Most of the dorms were, I think, single officer's quarters. One hall was the old mental ward though. So pretty much all of them had their own bathrooms and even the smaller two-person rooms were bigger than most three-person rooms at other schools. Not too crowded. Every hall had washing machines. Generally good. There were also on-campus houses that could be signed up for much the same as dorms.

Of course, I was very glad to leave that school for other reasons. Monterey is actually a fairly unexciting place for a college student, and the school curriculum was frustrating. I couldn't get through all my general ed, because I'd tried and gotten fed up with White-Man is the Devil 101 twice.

The nicer dorms at my school were reserved for foreign students and honors students. My girlfriend, who I met back when we were freshmen, lived in a different hall. Her's had much smaller rooms, but had been renovated. We spent much more time there, even if the rooms were the size of a closed fist. No prize (it flooded - on the 2nd floor), but it wasn't a slum filled with road rules rejects. And they knew what heat and air conditioning were for.

They aren't coed bathrooms......it's that because it's a coed dorm, men are going into the women's bathroom and vice versa. There are separate men's and women's bathrooms there. I've been to the school and know this first hand. However, when a drunken male student needs to pee, and there is only a girls bathroom on a girls wing, they are going to use the girls bathroom. Normally they'd pee out the window, but it's too cold on the hootus this time of year.

JeepinMatt wrote: The nicer dorms at my school were reserved for foreign students and honors students. My girlfriend, who I met back when we were freshmen, lived in a different hall. Her's had much smaller rooms, but had been renovated. We spent much more time there, even if the rooms were the size of a closed fist. No prize (it flooded - on the 2nd floor), but it wasn't a slum filled with road rules rejects. And they knew what heat and air conditioning were for.

My own experiences are sort of similar... I'm in the oldest dorm on campus, but wouldn't live anywhere else. The rooms are about 1.5 times the size of a normal dorm room. We have a bunk bed, futon, two desks, two dressers, two BIG dorm fridges, and room left over to play shinny hockey. But its old, with some slightly broken tiles, and its just kinda dingy. Lighting and posters help a lot.
My girlfriend lived in a newly refurbished place, but it was so small that I would never have been able to live there.
My big problem with mine have been an idiot who moved in across the hall last year (eventually thrown out of residence halls permanently) and the bathrooms. Last year at the beginning of the year there was a small leak from the ceiling above the toilet. We put in a work order. And another. By the time it was fixed, after thanksgiving, we had put in fifteen work-orders, and the hole was about three feet in diameter.
This year my floor-mates are just imbeciles and don't know how to hit the toilet.

One of my favorite features in the dorms at Monterey was having a room attached to a handicap-accessible bathroom. Great big shower with a fold-down bench at very convenient height. My girlfriend and I made good use of that facility.

mtn wrote: This year my floor-mates are just imbeciles and don't know how to hit the toilet.

Same, except it wouldn't just be piss that would end up on the floor. Try finding somebody else's scat all over the tile. And the shower let out this hideous screeching hiss when it was on. Coincidentally, the marble wall of the shower had a black vein that looked just like the devil. There was black mold, white mold, green mold. It flooded a couple inches when anyone took a shower. The shower rack was torn down and a humongous chunk of the counter was smashed out with what I can only presume was a wrecking ball. And smartly, the doors at each end of the bathroom could only be locked from the outside. Good or bad, depending on your perspective, and location.

That's right, I said scat

We had the E3 M3 on the floor as well.