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Parietals refers to a set of rules at the University of Notre Dame dictating visiting hours for the opposite sex in the single sex dorms. The University of Notre Dame IPA: or IPA: is a leading Roman Catholic institution located in Notre Dame, Indiana, immediately northeast of South Bend, Indiana, United States. ...
Visitation Rules
The University of Notre Dame, like many other Catholic or Christian colleges, enforces a visitation policy on those students who live in dormitories. These rules are known as "Parietals."
As of Fall 2006, duLac, the student handbook reads:
Undergraduate residence halls will set their visitation hours within the following limits: visiting hours for guests of the opposite sex are not to begin before 9 a.m. on any day and are not to extend beyond 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights and midnight on other nights. Thus, if you are a male you are not allowed in a women's dorm after 2am on weekends, midnight on school nights, and vice versa. This is the policy campus wide for all 27 single-sex dorms. Dorm rectors are allowed, at their discretion, to make the hours more strict - usually as a dorm-wide punishment for bad behavior[1]. They are not allowed to make the visiting hours more lenient.
Controversy Parietals is widely disliked by the student body[2] Polls have placed student support for ending Parietals at more than 50%, and support for extending the hours at more than 25%. There seems to be a general consensus that the policy detracts from the on-campus social life, and strains relations between the sexes [3] .
The Notre Dame administration, for its part, seems to have no interest in ending Parietals, citing the policy's effectiveness on calming down the dorm atmosphere, allowing residents to sleep or study without distraction. The administration has denied that the purpose of the policy is to reduce pre-marital sexual activity, but anecdotal evidence indicates that Parietals has exactly that effect.
References - ^ The Observer
- ^ Notre Dame Magazine.
- ^ The Observer
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