Mixed Gender College Dorm Rooms

[jimotis4heisman]

i place this here to keep the topic semi appropriate...

Mixed-gender dorm rooms are gaining acceptance - latimes.com

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In the 1970s, many U.S. colleges moved from having only single-sex dormitories to providing coed residence halls, with male and female students typically housed on alternating floors or wings. Then came coed hallways and bathrooms, further shocking traditionalists. Now, some colleges allow undergraduates of opposite sexes to share a room.

Pitzer, which began its program in the fall of 2008, is among about 50 U.S. schools with the housing choice, according to Jeffrey Chang, who co-founded the National Student Genderblind Campaign in 2006 to encourage gender-mixed rooms. Participating schools include UC Riverside, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Cornell, Dartmouth, Sarah Lawrence, Haverford, Wesleyan and the University of Michigan.
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interesting. personal thoughts? experiences, etc...

 

[FrancisSoyer]

I think I'll start working on that time machine I'm always babbling about. I'm studying for finals right now in the library and almost all of the girls are wearing stretchy pants. I can't concentrate and my balls hurt. What were we talking about? Oh yea, I wish I could have lived in coed dorms. It's going to lead to trouble though. Testosterone + estrogen + alcohol (not that hard to sneak in) is a recipe for big trouble. If I had a daughter she would not be going to a school that had this policy.

 

[MaliBuckeye]

i place this here to keep the topic semi appropriate...

Mixed-gender dorm rooms are gaining acceptance - latimes.com


interesting. personal thoughts? experiences, etc...

It'll be an interesting experiment until the first wave of harassment or sexual assault allegations come out, then it will be over.

There are enough roommate issues in a typical university residential situation that adding gender to the mix won't help.

 

[cincibuck]

1. I'm amazed at the number of students in my English classes who reveal that they lived at their boy/girl friend's house or their boy/girl friend lived in their house during high school with parental approval.

2. My guess is that the sex harass cases will equal the number of domestic violence and jealousy provoked fist fights.

3. Just approximating here, but with suicide/date rape rates already high in college why stoke the fire? Again based on what I read in student journals heartaches, heartbreaks, dear johns and the ensuing desire to maim another student is a fairly common occurrence and I don't see how this doesn't stack the odds that it will happen.

 

[PlanetFrnd]

I lived in mixed hallways in dorms for three years and a sort-of on-campus house with female students my senior year and didn't think it was that big of a deal. The article was unclear as to whether mixed-gender rooms were by choice only or could be randomly assigned, which I guess could change things. This strikes me as a really un-big deal.

 

[Mike80]

If I had a daughter she would not be going to a school that had this policy.

I do and she won't.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

1. I'm amazed at the number of students in my English classes who reveal that they lived at their boy/girl friend's house or their boy/girl friend lived in their house during high school with parental approval.

2. My guess is that the sex harass cases will equal the number of domestic violence and jealousy provoked fist fights.

3. Just approximating here, but with suicide/date rape rates already high in college why stoke the fire? Again based on what I read in student journals heartaches, heartbreaks, dear johns and the ensuing desire to maim another student is a fairly common occurrence and I don't see how this doesn't stack the odds that it will happen.

my guess is dear john "letters" have been replaced with txt mssgs and facebook relationship changes, :rof:


[quote='BusNative;167457;6]I lived in mixed hallways in dorms for three years and a sort-of on-campus house with female students my senior year and didn't think it was that big of a deal. The article was unclear as to whether mixed-gender rooms were by choice only or could be randomly assigned, which I guess could change things. This strikes me as a really un-big deal.[/quote]

im just willing to venture that most folks see mixed hallways a tad different than sharing a physical room, bathroom.

i dont know if it is by choice or not, im willing to assume you could at least opt out, at this point.

i think personal living arrangements are much different than school related ones. maybe my views are old fashioned and bigoted, yet i personally would not want to be exposed to this situation in todays litigious society and one that potentially brands actions with criminal repercussions.

its all hard to say, and i seem to agree fully with the modern blurring of gender roles/lines in todays society.