Twenty-four students, representing all of the seventeen wings, both genders, all years in school, and variations in architectural arrangements of corridor and room, were interviewed in an open-ended hour to hour and a half format. These sessions took place in the faculty office space adjacent to La Paz' main lobby and were prompted by a ready list of potential resident activities. New ones were added in the process.

Prior to beginning the interview session, each student took about ten minutes to indicate on a two-page list of spaces in La Paz how often each was used for either socializing or studying. These figures are summarized in the following plan-diagrams, indicating the approximate incidence of social and study situations for La Paz spaces. Given the lack of observed activities during morning hours (studying or socializing), a time period from 12 noon to 12 midnight was used to arrive at the approximate numbers of situations per hour for particular spaces.

It can be noted that the selection process of recruiting interviewees via wing RA's (the goal was two per wing) produced a group of residents who generally seemed more linked to or active in La Paz organizations. Three of the interviewees were themselves RA's. Looking at the diagrams of social and study incidence with this in mind, it seems likely that these figures will be somewhat higher than might be recorded for a more extensive, randomly recruited group of interviewees. This may be true particularly of social situations. Together with related actual interviewee comments, and even taking the incidence of social situations at face value, one sees a clear lack of spontaneous, social intensity throughout La Paz' public spaces.