The Boston Globe published this article earlier on our beloved University of Vermont. Any time something wacky and "progressive" occurs on the UVM campus no one bats an eye lash...but this weird dorm idea didn't pass the smell test. They try to bury the lede by quoting this poor brainwashed vice provost "“If they can get really good health habits now, we’ve done our job,”....okey dokey vice provost, you are totally thinking your own thoughts.
I did a little more digging (scrolling down the page) and came face to face with "The force behind the Wellness Environment is Dr. James Hudziak, who put theory into practice when his daughter, now a sophomore, enrolled at the university."
Ah-HA. Quelle surprise Dr. Hudziak's own daughter enrolled at the University. Now to be fair, if my daughter was going to college in my backyard I would probably attempt to create this dink-topia for kids who claim they aren't going to party, do drugs, drinks, etc. etc so I didn't have to worry about her going through the "normal college" experience; Domino's and puke for average dudes and ";)" for average chicks. But I've got bad news for you bubba, when you created this dorm science experiment you forgot the part where kids are VERY weird and will find an outlet for that, via booze or drugs or your daughter getting put on the spit or running 5Ks on the biggest party day of the year or whatever. Comes down to different tastes for different needs, but the common denominator is needs.
Long story short, when you are a weird dad who invents a weird dorm in a thinly veiled effort to keep your daughter from getting hers, always be wary that you are compounding the weirdness and weird x weird is never a winning combo for dads.
