The tiny, rectangular rooms with twin beds separated by only a few feet. The buffet-style dining halls. The communal bathrooms, whose patrons sometimes pad around carelessly in bare feet. There are few living arrangements, doctors say with a shudder, that are more fraught with contamination possibilities than the college dorm. â??I would call them a public health challenge, to say the least,â? says Dr. Margaret Spear, the director of university health services at Penn State, where roughly two-thirds of the students live in dorms.
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