Good night, sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite.

All over campus, women in sorority houses face unusual sleeping situations. Some sorority houses are large enough for each member to have a bed in their room. However, other houses utilize open-air dorms to allow for even more members to live in the house.

These sleep dorms are similar to a scene from a movie or book with an orphanage, such as “Annie” or “Madeline.” It is basically a big room with a ton of beds in it. These rooms are kept quiet and dark 24 hours a day.

At first thought, it may seem undesirable to be the unlucky roommate outcast to sleep in the open-air dorms. However, many sorority members attest to eventually enjoying and even preferring it. Some may even say it is what allows roommates to survive in a room together.

The Alpha Phi house has 12 beds in their ‘dormer,’ said Danielle Davis, president of the sorority. The rooms in the house have up to four people living in them, but not all have enough beds for every roommate to sleep in her room. Twelve girls must sleep in the big room full of beds.

Davis said in order to choose who gets to sleep in the room versus the dormer is up to the roommates themselves. Some decide to assign beds by the point system that is awarded in the sorority and others by preference, Davis said. She said many members switch off after first semester or halfway through a semester.

During the fall semester of this year, Davis slept in the dormer and now, as president, she sleeps in her own room.

Davis did not mind sleeping in the dormer because she said it was always cold and quiet, and she could take a nap at any time of the day without being disturbed by her roommates. Only a vibrating alarm can be used to wake up in the dormer since there is no noise allowed.

“I didn’t mind it at all,” Davis said. She said it was nice because it is easy to get up and not lounge around in bed all day. She added the only downfall is not having a place to sit and chill during the day. Although there is no way to sit and read or watch TV in bed, the rest of the house is available to do these things, Davis said.

Not every sorority member at the University experiences sleep dorms.

“We don’t have any cold-air dorms, so every girl lives in the same room that her desk and closet is in,” Michele Kory, president of Sigma Delta Tau, said.

Kory enjoys sleeping in her room.

“I think that before bedtime that’s when we talk the most and that’s when we get the closest,” she said.

The Sigma Delta Tau house has enough space for each member to have her bed in her room. Kory said waking up is not a problem. There are different light switches for different parts of the room so if one roommate must get up earlier, she will not disturb the others.

“I couldn’t wake up if my phone was on vibrate,” Kory said of the open-air dorms in other houses.

Similar to Sigma Delta Tau, everyone has beds in their rooms in the Delta Zeta house, said Heather Reid, the sorority’s president. Some members think having a cold-air dorm would be cool, she said, but overall she likes having her own space. Reid said she would be worried about getting sick if she was sleeping in a room with many other people. She was anxious about being kept awake all night if someone was coughing.

“When you have your own room it feels a lot more like home,” Reid said.

There are many sorority members throughout campus that never get to experience a sleep dorm. However, in houses where up to four girls may be sharing one room, having a different place to sleep gives roommates a chance to take a break from each other and gives them room to breathe. It is a way for sorority members to be taken outside their comfort zone and get to know their sisters beyond their roommates.