William T Goodall wrote:
When I was at uni, also in the 70's, we had the exact arrangement discussed in the article - little towers like mini-apartment blocks, with 4 rooms per floor and a common bathroom shared between the 4 residents of that floor. The kitchen and common room was one per tower, or 17 students (the kitchen floor also housed a third year student who acted as a leader/mentor to the young 'uns. There was also a big dining hall and big common rooms for the whole residential college (which was one of ten colleges on the university grounds).When I went to Aberdeen University in the 1970's every freshman got a private study-bedroom in a hall of residence. This was before the personal computer, but students had their own hifis and tvs. The university had started building these halls in the mid 60's. The idea of sharing a room at university would seem pretty odd at most British universities for the last 30 years. What next from the USA - indoor plumbing ? :)
The idea of a room-mate as per American TV/movies always seemed so awful I didn't really think it was real.
Cheers
Russell C.
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