Apply Uniformly

The apartment-style dorms can be configured as a room of six beds or as a suite of six adjoining single rooms. The roommate constraint generally applies across adjoining rooms because we want groups to be together across the suite situations as well as within rooms. Non-smoking consensus does not generally apply across adjoining rooms, however, a shared living area keeps smoking an issue in these dorms regardless of their interpreted configuration. The music, study late and age difference errors do not effect suites -- the real world view says these constraints are less critical when students can easily shut their doors, but they would matter in a multi-bed room. All these constraints apply uniformly, whether a consensus of six or the trivial case of one.
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