Trading Spaces

Posted by Brittany Karford Rogers (BA ’07), Associate Editor

Randomly assigning strangers to be roommates, especially six freshman girls, can be a gamble. By the beginning of December, one girl in Sini's apartment wanted out. "She felt uncomfortable around us," Sini says. "Everyone else was sharing food; she didn't. We were not allowed to talk about boys, kissing, holding hands--anything like that. She thought it's not right to kiss before you're married or engaged." After mediation with an RA, the affronted roommate opted to move into Wyview, where she would have her own room. In the shakeup, apartment 46 absorbed a new roommate, a friend from down the hall.