From Harbin to Houses (continued) Grad Singles so he could have a room to himself: "When you've got your own room, you can go to sleep when you want, get up when you want, do what you want and you don't disturb anyone and no one disturbs you. You have a room half the size of a regular room and you can arrange it the way you want. II's not birdcage small . You have privacy 34. lifestyles \ and you can be your own boss. You don't have to compromise at all with what you want to do." Being one of the older dormitories on campus, Grad Singles has a "negative rep" among the male coeds. "II's not as big and nice as Kellar, or as rowdy as Heritage, but we are all a big, happy family. We bum off of each other all the time. Studying is no problem - all you've got to do is stick your head out the door and yell and in half an hour or so, they'll be quiet. Grad singles is th",,·place to be. And if you don't like us, we'll beat you up." While dorm living provides a lot of social interaction, many students prefer , especially in their latter years of college, to move off campus. "I chose the trailer park because it was can· venient and available," said junior Susan Duke. "My roommate, Paula Carter, loo~ed around last semester at houses. They were already taken and when this trailer became available, we decided to take it. " Of course , the most obvious advantage of living off campus is not having curfew. "If you really need to go out after 10:30 to get something, or even just to get away for a while, you can. Most of the time we're in by 10:30 anyway because there's not a whole lot you want to do after then." Susan and Paula enjoy being hostesses to friends who visit with them. Susan recalled one occasion when she and her roommate planned a birthday party for a firend: "It was on a weekend after some seminar. We told a few people that we were fixing pizza and asked them to come over. We figured that we would have about 10 to 14 people, but we ended up having about 30. It was fun. It was crowded but we had a good time. It was just nice for them to have a place to go and get together." Steve Woodhouse, a senior from Michigan, lives in a house on West McRae . Besides the lack of a restrictive curfew, 1_OPEN HOUSE provides a time for a chuckle and strawberry pie, with John Istre enjoying the company of his sister Jeannie, right, and friend Luann Lee . 2. RELAXING on the windowsill, Grad Singles reSident Mike Griffith checks out action on the intramural field from his second story perch. 3. SENIOR DWight Phillips catches up on class assignments with some late night reading. Steve found an added advantage of off-campus housing was that "you eat better, even though you have to cook it yourself." Steve found the social life fulfilling, as did Susan: "I don't think the lack of visitors is a problem. I spend most of my time on campus, and when I go home, it's because I'm ready to be by myself. The curfew restricting my friends is not a problem either. Travelling back and forth is the only thing - it
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