From: tjoa@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Tjoa)
Subject: Re: Freshman Dorm... a review
Summary: Why should I see something I get every year?
Keywords: freshman dorm show sex
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 08:24:21 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.154226.2472@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> mfoster@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu (Marc Foster) writes:
>CBS ran the first episode of 'Freshman Dorm' last night...
>
>It was a total joke.

"Didn't see it."

[what the dorms looked like]

>Lulu was a total joke.  If she has all that money, then why the hell is
>she in a dorm with two other people?  She'd be in a single, or out of the 
>dorm completely, in real life.

I agree.  In general, most people would rather be out in their own place,
but aren't because of $$ and the variability of rental units.

>The Hispanic girl (forgot the name, sorry) seems to be dense as well.

Her name was K.C., I think.  (I saw a review that described it as being
"sophomoric" and "less pretentious" than "Melrose Place")

>Coed BATHROOMS????  You can't be serious...  I know I'm in the middle of
>the Bible Belt and the show is based in California (at fictional Western
>Pacific University), but I can't see a housing programs type person anywhere
>in the U.S.A. having that.

Uh oh.  Don't come to Berkeley.  (Showers/toilets are in separate, locking
stalls, either sex can use whatever...)  About 30 people share, 5 sinks,
4 stalls, 3-4 showers, (per floor) at least in the high rises.

And we're not even Stanford, thank god!!!  (Co-ed showers??!!)
*see note below

>Someone needs to tell the people who designed to set of the dorm lounge
>that anything not bolted down or weighing 3 tons gets destroyed in the 
>first week, and that's no gaurantee it won't get trashed anyway.

Yup.  Sometimes we luck out and they wait until after all the parents go
home.  Then, the physicists come out and test acceleration due to gravity.

>                                                                  The
>set people are clueless as to what dorms should look like (low income
>inner city projects are a close approximation.

Our "high-rises", maybe.  Foothill, Haste Channing, and Clark Kerr are
really nice though.  Foothill opened Sp 90 and looks kinda like a funky
ski lodge.  Haste-Channing is a cheaper version of Foothill.

>I guess CBS wanted a diversion from 90210.  This show is gonna get riped
>to shreds to the critics (if they don't, I will lose all faith in quality
>television).

Quality television?  Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
I'm not going to criticize the show without seeing it, though, but the
idea seems like something criticizeable.  However, I can really see it's
appeal to junior high schoolers.  I guess I just don't want to watch it
and start squicking.

>I'm sure this discussion will generate a lot of traffic once the fall
>semester starts and all the fish start whining that their dorms are
>nothing like the ones on TV.

Perhaps we could just bear it and write some scripts for them.

>Please email flames... or laurels.

Oh, now you tell me...

>marc

* note:  Before you reply, I did read Brett's post first.


-Richard
Dormie too long...