[-1:-3.00]including acceptable hours for study and sleep,
[-1:-4.00]a policy for use of each other's possessions and how messages will be handled.
[-1:-5.00]Although the contracts are not binding and will never go to a jury,
[-1:-6.00]copies are given to the floor's residential adviser
[-1:-7.00]in case conflicts later arise.
[-1:-8.00]“The contract gives us permission to talk about issues which students forget
[-1:-9.00] or are afraid to talk about,"says the director of residential programs.
[-1:10.00]Some schools try to head off feuding before it begins
[-1:11.00]by using computerized matching,
[-1:12.00]a process that nevertheless remains more of a guessing game than a science.
[-1:13.00]Students are put together
[-1:14.00]on the basis of their responses to housing form questions
[-1:15.00]about smoking tolerance,preferred hours of study and sleep,
[-1:16.00]and self-described tendencies toward tidiness or disorder.
[-1:17.00]Parents sometimes weaken the process
[-1:18.00]by taking the forms and filling in false and wishful data
[-1:19.00]about their children's habits,especially on the smoking question.
[-1:20.00]The matching process is also complicated by a philosophical debate
[-1:21.00]among housing managers concerning the flavor of university life:
[-1:22.00]“Do you put together people who are similar — or different,
[-1:23.00]so they can learn about each other?”
[-1:24.00]A cartoon sums up the way many students feel the process works:
[-1:25.00]Surrounded by a mass of papers,
[-1:26.00]a housing worker picks up two selection forms and exclaims,
[-1:27.00]“Likes chess,likes football;they're perfect together!”
[-1:28.00]Alan Sussman,a second-year student,says,
[-1:29.00]“I think they must have known each of our personalities
[-1:30.00]and picked the opposite,"he recalls.
[-1:31.00]While Sussman was neat and serious about studying,
[-1:32.00]his roommate was messy and liked to party into the early hours of the morning.
[-1:33.00]“I would come into the room and find him pawing through my desk,
[-1:34.00]looking for postage for a letter.Another time,
[-1:35.00]I arrived to find him chewing the last of a batch of chocolate chip cookies
[-1:36.00]my mother had sent me.
[-1:37.00]People in the hall were putting up bets
[-1:38.00]as to when we were going to start slapping each other around,"he says.

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