Female residents socialize in a shared traditional room at Totem Park, UBC. Image via Vancouver Housing, UBC.

In recent years UK has built and opened several residence halls that offer numerous amenities and new equipment. However, with the rise of these innovative areas, traditional-style dorms, characterized by shared bathrooms and two or more students living with one another in a single space, are becoming less frequent on campus, and will soon be discontinued altogether.

Natalie Jehn, psychology freshman and current resident of Blanding IV, said living in a traditional-style dorm is important, especially for first-year students, because the living arrangements allow for greater communication between residents that may not necessarily occur in the newer dorms.....Continue Reading

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