Five of 11 residence halls on West Texas A&M University’s campus are coed. Buff Hall, Centennial Hall, Conner Hall, Founders Hall and Jarrett Hall are all coed dorms.

The coed dorms are separated by floors or hall directions. In the dorms that have multiple floor levels, males stay on the bottom floors while females stay on the top floors.

“I think that they separate males and females while in the dorm just so it is not so awkward in the hall. While I have had to be on the fourth floor, I think it is for safety reasons so people do not try and peak into girls windows,” Lindsay Ogerly, WTAMU junior Education major, said.

Cross Hall, Cousins Hall, Shirley Hall and Stafford Hall are the all-female dorms. Jones Hall and Guenther Hall are the only two all-male dorms.

“An advantage on living in a same sex dorm would be that people get to meet people of the same sex and hang out. Looking at the opposite direction though, it is a disadvantage living in a same sex dorm because people do not get to meet as many people as you can in a coed dorm,” Garrett Breaux, WTAMU Senior Music Education major, said.

While all dorms are secure with card entrance to get into the building, floors that residents go on and visitors go on are not secure.

“I feel that living in an all-female dorm is safer. We are all girls so we can relate and watch out for each other, but living in a coed dorm is different because you just never know who can come up the stairs and follow you to your dorm room because they already have access to the building,” Taylor Grisham, WTAMU junior Education major, said.

Bathrooms and hall ways are still separated in the coed dorms on WT’s campus. The bathrooms are not coed on any floor. Since each hall way is separated by gender, visitors of the opposite sex are required to be accompanied by a person who lives on that floor.

“I like living in a coed dorm. It opened up my friendships and let me meet more people. There really was no difference to me once I was really up in my hall way because people do not just hang out in the hall way,” Ogerly said.