Should Colleges Let Men & Women Share Dorm Rooms?
LatestMore colleges are letting men and women share dorm rooms, but no one expects this will become the norm. College administrators are still afraid letting students live together in sin (and maybe even have sex) will anger parents and donors.
The L.A. Times reports that about 50 colleges in the U.S., including UC Riverside, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Cornell, Dartmouth, Sarah Lawrence, Haverford, Wesleyan and the University of Michigan, have started letting men and women room together. The movement started in response to gay, bisexual and transgender students saying they’d be more comfortable living with someone of the opposite sex, and some of these schools still restrict the option to “certain floors or to residence halls with gay themes.” Gay themes? Yes, obviously the best way to make these students feel comfortable is to single them out and isolate them from the rest of the student population!