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Male and Female Students Sharing Same UH Dorm Rooms

Submitted by Guest on Fri, 09/04/2015 - 21:42

Beds only a few feet apart

Hawaii Political Info introduction: HPI has independently verified with other University of Hawaii-Manoa students that the following article is accurate: male and female students can opt to share the same room with their beds just feet away, whether or not there is an existing relationship.

by AL Frenzel

Storage service company owner, AL Frenzel is shocked by living arrangements set up at University of Hawaii dorm building Hale Noelani Wing B.

Frenzel owns a storage company that recently delivered items to a customer at one of the dorms at the University of Hawaii Manoa. During this delivery he was stunned that the male customer to whom he was delivering to would be in the same room assigned to a bed less than 10 feet away from a female student in the same room. The particular situation involved an apartment consisting of two rooms and shared bathrooms in the B wing of the Hale Noelani dorm rooms. One room upstairs with two beds was assigned to two females and the room downstairs with two beds was assigned to a male and a female—who had never known each other. Earlier, Frenzel delivered items in the same wing to a male and female sharing a room and thought this was peculiar in itself, even though the two appeared to be close friends.

Until today Frenzel was unsure whether the living arrangement was agreed to by all the parties involved and wasn’t sure his outrage was warranted. But he received an email response from one of his customers today, [FEMALE NAME WITHHELD] saying: “But you are right, I was pretty surprised when I found out that [MALE NAME WITHHELD] was going to be living with us, and I didn’t think that UH would actually place a male and female in the same room.”

Frenzel stated he had witnessed gross mismanagement by the Student Housing Services Department over the eight years he had been providing his door-to-door storage service to UH Manoa students. Their management [UH] has a “take it or leave it” attitude towards the students; providing poor service at expensive prices. “I’m amazed the students and parents put up with the poor facilities and treatment they get; especially during check-in and check-out when they are given the bums rush in and out of the dorm rooms. It appears procedures are designed to accommodate staff and not the students who should come first. In addition to callous treatment, only one of the twenty dorm facilities have air-conditioning, elevators in Frear Hall have chronic maintenance issues, laundry facilities are atrocious, and the Noelani apartments need a facelift or thorough cleaning.”

Regarding the co-ed sleeping arrangements, Frenzel believes UH-Manoa has a ticking time bomb: “How are they going to explain to parents that their daughter was living in the same tiny dorm room as a male stranger with no background check or even simple concurrence.” I wouldn’t allow it if it was my son or daughter, even if they were a willing participant—promoting a life-style such as this belongs off-campus, not in a state facility. It’s obvious that if the Student Housing Services Department can’t see this is an issue, they’ll never improve upon the more simple conditions of dorm life at the University of Hawaii.”

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