University - Halls of Residence

sooz

Tom2010 wrote: »

A 'love life' is permitted provide you sign your lover into halls reception and have them issued with a temporary visitor pass. They can stay for 1 night per term. Everyone else has to leave campus by 11pm.

Brilliant! :T

They are encouraging promiscuity. You can have as many one night stands as you want, but no longer term relationships.

StudentMoneySaver

The rules are draconian. If the halls are owned/run by the University you should definitely get your SU involved. I would like to know which University it is, I can think of at least 3 former Polys in South London.

We had a fire drill this morning (7:30am, the state of undress people came out in was amazing), they told us it will be the last practice one for the year (any future alarms will be tests or real).

Imp wrote: »

Those searches during fire drills are important. When at college, there was one instance where a student had popped out, leaving his girl tied to the bed in the altogether. If there hadn't been a fire alarm while he was out, and the wardens found the young lady in that state during their search of the rooms, I wouldn't be able to tell you this story, and where would we all be then?

I had to read this twice, I thought you meant that you were the unfortunate girl tied to the bed.

sooz

StudentMoneySaver wrote: »

I had to read this twice, I thought you meant that you were the unfortunate girl tied to the bed.

I think she was

StudentMoneySaver

sooz wrote: »

I think she was

Oh dear.

Blodwen

I think the OP and some others are being a bit harsh in condemning the university here. Fair enough, having people rummaging through your stuff etc. isn't right but the fire regulations have to be enforced. OP- I think you'll find these 'fire drills' are not actually drills but one of your fellow students burning toast/smoking/smashing the glass for a laugh - why not take it up with them rather than the staff who HAVE to evacuate you and aren't allowed to let you back in until the fire brigade have checked everywhere, even if it seems obvious why the alarm was activated? And as harsh as it may seem to fine the girl in the shower, I bet she's never late out when there's a fire alarm now, and that might just save her life one day.

It wasn't that long ago that I was a student and cursed having to traipse down 17 flights of stairs during a fire alarm but I now work in a university and 'volunteered' to be fire officer for my dept (not halls but if you think that's bad try doing health and saftey for a lab), and you do get to see the other side of the coin.

FTBFun

I reckon it might the LSBU - its the only South London ex-poly I can think of plus they advertise a lot on the tube and buses.

Its not Roehampton as a couple of my friends have studied there and I would have heard about this rubbish, and I doubt is Greenwich as that's more South East/East

FTBFun

Actually when I was in halls 10 years ago (good god....) the cleaner used to let herself in at 9ish in the morning, every morning, to clean our en-suites.

We just got used to it in the end.

white_noise

FTBFun wrote: »

I reckon it might the LSBU

i don't think so as they allow 3 nights of 'guests'

http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/accommodation/pdfs/accommodationAgreement1011.pdf

WN

StudentMoneySaver

FTBFun wrote: »

Actually when I was in halls 10 years ago (good god....) the cleaner used to let herself in at 9ish in the morning, every morning, to clean our en-suites.

We just got used to it in the end.

I wish the cleaners would clean mine. The cleaning equipment provided in my halls is appalling.

Person_one

FTBFun wrote: »

Actually when I was in halls 10 years ago (good god....) the cleaner used to let herself in at 9ish in the morning, every morning, to clean our en-suites.

We just got used to it in the end.

You had cleaners! :eek:

Whatever happened to students living in their own filth? Its good for the immune system, probably.