Why is it called a Res Hall and not a dorm?

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3 total messages Started by Kevin Murphy Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:41

#1029

Author: Kevin Murphy
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:41

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Ok... Some things are obvious.. I mean, I can see that 
feminists might be offended by policeMAN, etc... but
why is it politically incorrect to call the place whree
students live on campus a Dorm?  Is there soemting that
I should know?

Re: Why is it called a Res Hall and not a dorm?

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Author: Brian Chung
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 00:17

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In article <wanderer.722378513@camelot> wanderer@camelot.bradley.edu (Kevin Murphy) writes:
>
>Ok... Some things are obvious.. I mean, I can see that 
>feminists might be offended by policeMAN, etc... but
>why is it politically incorrect to call the place whree
>students live on campus a Dorm?  Is there soemting that
>I should know?
>
	The rationale I was given when I was going through the RA training
at Cornell was that a dormitory implies that the place is only a place to
sleep at night and not much more.  On the other hand, a residence hall
implies that the place is where the students "live."  Of course, in four
years here, I haven't seen the difference between a dorm and a res. hall.


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Re: Why is it called a Res Hall and not a dorm?

#1071

Author: James Hague
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:25

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Kevin Murphy writes:
>
>Ok... Some things are obvious.. I mean, I can see that 
>feminists might be offended by policeMAN, etc... but
>why is it politically incorrect to call the place whree
>students live on campus a Dorm?

Don't know, but I always refused to call my dorm anything
but a dorm.  It really annoyed the people in the "Residence
Hall Association."  One of them even wrote me a letter
explaining why my dorm was actually a residence hall and not
really a dorm at all.  I was glad to finally be set straight.

--
James Hague   
exuhag@exu.ericsson.se

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