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Lifestyles
Living with the
Three's Company
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Sean Perez, a sophomore
general studies major, passes
his roommates, Taylor Darnell,
a sophomore animal science
major, and Leighann Sumner,
a sophomore general studies
major, milk. The co-ed living
arrangement started this fall.
Perez, Darnell and Sumner have
known each other since ele
mentary school.
“I have known them for so
long, so I decided to move in to
gether,” Perez said.
Darnell and Perez share a bath
room in the three bedroom house.
“Its not bad sharing it,” Perez
said. “We have classes at differ
ent times.”
Perez said living with two
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women is different than when
he lived in Dunn Hall.
“The arguments we do have
aren’t as often,” Perez said. “But
the ones we have are about stu
pid stuff.”
Sumner said she and Darnell
asked him to move in.
“It is a lot better living with a
guy,” Sumner said. “There isn’t
as much tension.”
Sumner said living with Perez
is not as bad as she thought.
“He is pretty clean,” Sumner
said. “He does make messes
sometimes, but when he does,
he is pretty good about cleaning
it up.”
All three roommates said the liv
ing situation has worked out well.
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Co-ed roommates defy cultural norm
By Michael Schaub
Staff writer
I t happens all the time. A young man and a
young woman meet, become fast friends
and start to hang out together every night.
Sooner or later, they decide to make a logical
progression and take their relationship to the
next level.
They do not start dating — they move in
together.
Defying cultural trends that once frowned
upon any sort of cohabitation, friends of op
posing sexes are now sharing living quarters,
with less of the winks, nods and frowns that
used to accompany such arrangements.
Gabriella Guzzio, a senior chemistry major,
shares a College Station apartment with friends
David Reed, a senior accounting major, and
Megan Jarman, a senior finance major.
“There’s a lot less giggling and silliness than
when I lived with just girls,” Guzzio said. “Plus,
it’s easier to be annoyed at (David) than it is
with girls. I don’t have to worry about whether
he’s going to still like me. It just depends on the
people, more than on the actual gender.”
Jarman said she has noticed some major ad
vantages to having a male roomie.
“It works out better with the bathroom
schedule,” Jarman said. “Guys are in there for
five minutes, and they’re out. Also, it’s nice to
have a guy when you hear a noise outside late
at night. I can just say, ‘Hey, David, go down and
see what that is.’”
Although the roommates said their house
hold is clear of conflicts, Jarman said, decisions
about bathroom decor threatened to create a
rift the size of Disneyland in the apartment.
“Our bathroom was beige,” Guzzio said. “It
was boring, so Megan and I decided to redeco
rate before David had come back from summer.”
The two seniors thought flowers would be too
“girly,” so they settled on a Mickey Mouse motif.
“It started with just a shower curtain,”
Guzzio said. “Then it sort of snowballed into
wall hangings and all that.”
The bathroom, now decorated in bright yel
low with likenesses of Disney’s smiling rodent,
is a fair compromise, Jarman said.
“It’s not girly,” she said. “It’s cute.”
Guzzio said the mouse decor offsets
Reed’s taxidermic taste in antelope skins and
leather furniture.
“If he can have dead animals, I can have
Mickey Mouse,” Guzzio said. “There’s a lot of
compromise here.”
But there is little compromise, and a lot of
acceptance, in the College Station apartment
of platonic friends Leslie Speikes, a junior
English major, and Jason Daughtry, a Texas
A&M graduate.
U There’s a lot less giggling
and silliness than when I
lived with just girls. Plus, it’s easier
to be annoyed at David than it is
with girls.”
Gabriella Guzzio
jsenior chemistry major
Speikes and Daughtry said they like living
with each other, despite their gender differences.
There is an advantage to not living with oth
er women, Speikes said.
“It’s great. The only person I have to deal
with who has PMS is me,” she said. “There
should be a ‘one uterus per household’ law.”
The ‘battle of the sexes’ does not rear its
head in their household, Daughtry said.
“It’s more like a brother and sister type of
thing,” Daughtry said. “We mostly just pull
pranks on each other.”
“Like when Jason put that fake arm in the
freezer,” Speikes said.
The two never even fight about that most
sacred of rooms — the bathroom.
“What does a guy need?” Daughtry said. “A
bar of soap and a bottle of shampoo.”
“Whereas when girls take a shower,” Speikes
said, “you have enough time to watch ‘ Seinfeld.’”
The only bone of contention is over the
television, but Daughtry said he has admit
ted defeat.
“I’ve had to watch a couple of soap operas
— maybe 15 or 16,” he said. “I can’t change the
channel, because I never have the remote
when the soaps are on.”
Speikes, however, finds joy in torturing
Daughtry on Saturday afternoons.
“He likes football,” she said. “I just like to see
the expression on his face when I change the
channel during football. That’s (women’s) fa
vorite sport — watching you people (men).”
Daughtry said the two find a way to get
along though.
“I have my own room and the door locks,”
he said.
“No, it doesn’t,” Speikes said.
Daughtry said he has not been forced into
any embarrassing situations in the month he
has lived with Speikes.
With many co-ed roommates, the issue is a
personal one, and not a gender one at all.
“I was always fighting with my female room
mate,” Speikes said. “I don’t have to worry
about all that b.s. now. I was in a bad situation,
and Jason kind of swooped in and rescued me.”
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