<p>This is just meant as an attempt to find out what people here think about the idea of college dorms and the extent to which a line needs to be drawn to prevent an unhealthy and dangerous hook up culture, so to speak. Dorms by and large have situations where one dorm is either all male or all female, a dorms where the floors alternate, with one male floor, one female floor and so on, dorms where males and females are on the same floor, but it is female suites and male suites together and coed dorms where the suites are completely coed and males and females share a common bathroom.</p>
<p>What do you think is the ideal scenario for college life? Some universities believe anything other than having only males in some dorm buildings and only some females in other dorm buildings creates an out of control hook up culture that damages the academic environment and crates an unhealthy social environment. others think alternating male and female floors is ok but not anymore coed than that. Do you think a line should be drawn at all? And if so, where, exactly?</p>
<p>I think it involved a little more than a hookup culture. Basically imo I would want to prevent rape, stalkers, abuser, etc. I would also considering a gay person but that is less likely.</p>
<p>Hook up culture is probably going to happen anyway regardless of what you do but I do believe alternating floors would promote this somehow. But it’s not like everyone want to hookup. Many people are actually seeking potential relationship. So I would prefer the Co-ed dorm divided by wings not floors. Some of my buddies in the all-male dorms are kinda whiny about not seeing as many female in their dorms so I wouldn’t want to do that.</p>
<p>But I believe a choice should offer for coed as the one I described and one gender dorm. I don’t think Alternating floors is ideal.</p>
<p>IMHO, hook up culture isn’t related to co-ed dorms. I lived in a co-ed dorm (by wing, but on the same floor) in 1982 my freshman year of college… it isn’t like they are a new thing. Then in an all-women’s dorm for two years after that. Not sure there was any significant difference in the amount of sexual activity between the two living arrangements, quite a bit going on in both environments. But fewer freshman males barfing in the halls in the all women’s dorm, of course.</p>
<p>Co-ed dorms have nothing to do with so-called hook-up culture (which, btw, is by and large a piece of crap mostly created by the media and sensationalists). </p>
<p>What colleges share a “common bathroom”? I don’t know of any (though I’m sure they exist). They are NOT the norm and people aren’t looking for a hook-up while they brush their teeth and poop. </p>
<p>I think these are adults and should be able to handle themselves no matter where they live. Just because there’s a guy living next door doesn’t mean you’re any more likely to sleep with him than someone random the next dorm over. I would NOT have handled living in an all-girls dorm that well. I get along so much better with guys and was almost always on the guys’ floor (or by the guys’ side).</p>
<p>Actually, coed dorms with coed gang bathrooms do exist, usually in older formerly single-gender dorms that were converted to coed by popular demand.</p>
<p>These days, new dorms seem to be more commonly arranged in suites, with each single-gender suite having a private bathroom, though the dorm overall is coed.</p>
<p>I’m sorry but there is a hookup culture. Guys tend to talk about it more while women are more quiet about it. But it’s not a major thing or anything like that just fairly common.</p>
<p>I think co-ed dorms (with males and females living in the same building) is the greatest idea ever. I would have personally hated living in all-girls dorms.</p>
<p>That being said, my university had female-only suites and male-only suites. So, while I was surrounded by guys as neighbors, I only shared my bathroom and room with girls. I thought it was a pretty good balance.</p>
<p>Something else to be noted: My best guyfriends lived on my hall and at night whenever we hung out somewhere, I always had a guy to walk me home. There’s a lot to be said for that.</p>
<p>I was not really trying to ■■■■■ with this thread, I was actually thinking it would be an interesting discussion, though I do see that CC is not interested in long discussions and debates over this the way they used to be - it seems like posters here have gotten rather burned out on it, so to speak.</p>
<p>There was a long discussion on co-ed bathrooms just a week or two ago in the Parents Forum (or Cafe) if you want to read through pages and pages of people arguing the same points over and over.</p>
<p>I can’t stand singe-sex floors. Did that in high school, never again. </p>
<p>Given that I’m the type of person who can live on a clothing-optional floor with coed showers, well, I’m not you, but frankly having a culture of consent works a lot better than segregating males and females.</p>
<p>I’m a college freshman and am in the same situation as AUgirl. I’m in a double, so I have a roommate and we share a bathroom with the girls room next to us, so there are four of us to a bathroom. My suitemates’ room is on the left while a boys room is to the right of me and there is a boys room directly across the hall and over one. The floor is set up as two girl rooms, two boy rooms, two girl rooms and so on. And with singles it is the same way. I think this is an optimal set up.</p>