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are continually being updated. The down side to this type of living is that there is no centralized dining facility and the G-card is able to be used at all eating establishments on campus. For my son, I would prefer dining halls along with stand alone establishments and quad eating areas as he has attained at ODU, but those with harried schedules this is the panacea of dining.

3. Winthrop University in S. Carolina. These dorms are all brick and high rise with 24 hour security in each dorm, key card entry and 2 doubles connected by a bathroom with in room closets and standard loft bedding. There is what they call a Micro-Fridge in each dorm room, but no sitting area. There are study lounges and TV lounges on each floor. The campus is lovely and the dorms clean and freshly painted and carpeted after each year. Again, quite nice creature comforts for the budge minded.

4. University of Manoa, Hawaii has dorm space which is not luxurious and with sometimes non functioning plumbing but what speaks for itself is the VIEW. Imagine waking up each day to the Hawaiian surf. Out each window you can view the beautiful Pacific coastline and all it has to offer. I wonder if looking at this view on a daily basis would give me the push I needed to get myself to school each day to study. I think it could turn even the most land locked person into a would be surfer. This is not to say that the rooms are not adequate. They are on the small side, tile floors with en suite bathrooms and some with living room/kitchenette accommodations, but again THAT view!

Now that schools are competing for the best students and dorm life is becoming more and more like living on your own without "the man", I believe most universities will get the message and come around. Even my alma mater, University of Pennsylvania, is allowing students to live in coed rooms! Mind you, the quad is still the quad there one swears Ben Franklin himself stayed in those very dorms which have been untouched for that many years, but being able to live with whom you choose is certainly a step in the right direction. The cool factor is in the eye of the beholder whether it is creature comforts such as en suite bathrooms and carpeting, kitchenettes in the room, rooms coed by floor or suite or now even coed rooms. Ah, the young, the choice is theirs for the taking!

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