<p>I understand what you guys are saying and I am not trying to discriminate anyone. I just don’t want someone attempting to f**** me in the middle of the night. It goes the same for a person who might be afraid that an Arab might bomb him in the middle of the night. I don’t want to get into religious views, especially mine, because all of us come from different backgrounds and have different beliefs so it will not be worthwhile to argue over something that is not going to change. I just don’t want to risk it & I don’t care or won’t mind if someone changes room because he doesn’t want to live with an Arab and get harassed (even though I am not Arab and don’t do such things). I understand that not all “Arabs” and “Gay” people turn out bad, but its just a matter of choice, which I want to make. If that is what you’re calling discrimination, then I wouldn’t argue more.</p>
<p>A straight roommate is just as likely, if not far more likely to rape you as a gay one is.</p>
<p>Rape has little to do with sexuality and everything to do with power. The guys in prison aren’t gay–they’re just showing their dominance.</p>
<p>It doesnt matter that you have some problem with gay people they aren’t going to let you change unless it’s a valid reason. And there has to be space. </p>
<p>My friend’s suite-mate’s left a boy in their room alone. He went through the bathroom and actually verbally harassed my friend and her roommate, saying racial things and such and after they shut the door in his face, he went through their things in the bathroom and they still weren’t allowed to move rooms.</p>
<p>Its alright. I’ll figure it out with them if such situation occurs because after all, I won’t be paying them 700 or 800 / month for some b.s. Anyways, thanks for everyone’s input who replied.</p>
<p>NXT,</p>
<p>I am a tolerant man. For the past weeks I have tolerated your countless questions about which dorm you should live in. I tolerated you posting the same question on the same subject multiple times. I have tolerated your paranoia, nervousness, and foolish questions. </p>
<p>You have crossed the line. Your lack of tolerance towards gay people is disgusting. It is ignorant, bigoted, and reflects very poorly on you. If these are your views, I feel sorry for you. Grow up. Open your eyes, and learn to accept. If you can’t, perhaps you need another year of growing up at your community college. Do not bring your narrow mind to Austin.</p>
<p>I couldn’t agree more socaldad. Nxt, you are a sad excuse for a UT student. I suggest you take your unfair and ultraconservative views to A&M - they may be appreciated there.</p>
<p>austin is a liberal city…UT is a liberal school making its presence known in a red state…</p>
<p>this school is showing its success by moving past people’s status, but with what they contribute to society…</p>
<p>if you have a problem with that, then don’t come to AUSTIN…go to baylor or something…</p>
<p>fyi-- a friend’s son got his housing assignment last night. My son is still waiting. Anyone else hear yet?</p>
<p>Please post what he got if you know</p>
<p>yea, Austin is quite liberal. When we were going to the Stand up for Social Justice Program at Orientation, the Young Conservatives of Texas or something were handing out flyers to combat this “liberalism” what gets me really ****ed is that political ideological groups, instead of voicing there opinions attack the other side. There is this “liberalphobia” that ultraconservatives are making known, which makes liberals look like communist crazies. Btw, I am not liberal at all. I am a moderate, as most of America is</p>
<p>“I am a tolerant man. For the past weeks I have tolerated your countless questions about which dorm you should live in. I tolerated you posting the same question on the same subject multiple times.”</p>
<p>First of all, why are you talking like you run this forum? True that I made a few posts asking which dorm to live in and those were not “countless questions”. If you go back and look at my “countless questions” …1) you will notice, as it looks like if you haven’t yet, that most of those questions were not a post and 2) if I made a post, I tried to make it as public as I could so others will also benefit from the answers. Also, don’t forget the number of times I’ve answered people’s questions …nothing to brag about …everybody does that. But the only reason I am pointing this out is b/c I wanted to keep the forum alive by keep questioning and answering…If you and your other buddies don’t like that, then don’t read my posts. </p>
<p>“I have tolerated your paranoia, nervousness, and foolish questions.”</p>
<p>Why the f&&& did you do that? You didn’t even had to do that if you didn’t like in the first place. You made a choice now don’t blame me for it. Okay, lets assume for a moment that it was my fault, what kind of foolish question have I asked or Is there such a thing as a foolish question? & nervousness…yea I was damn nervous because I don’t have the luxury of visiting Austin over and over or even twice to look for off campus dorms/apartments after I knew I wasn’t going to receive on campus contract. You or others of your kind might not be “paranoid” or “nervous” but I had to made sure which dorm I need to live in for the rest of coming year within that one visit. </p>
<p>“You have crossed the line. Your lack of tolerance towards gay people is disgusting. It is ignorant, bigoted, and reflects very poorly on you.”</p>
<p>I mentioned in the last post that I didn’t wanted to bring up religion and personal beliefs but I guess your ignorant a&& just didn’t notice that. So now for your information: I am a Muslim. My religion is Islam. Since my holy book has condemned being “gay” so much and has a very cruel punishment for it, my people don’t like to be around such people. Now I am less of an extremist like many others of my kind. I am okay interacting with gay people, talking to, or working with them. But when it comes to personal issues like living with them, I can’t tolerate that. A gay person might not rape me or an Arab mgiht not boomb you but nothing matters more to me than my religion. Maybe if I was born in a different religion, if I was raised in different part of the world, or if I was raised by different people, I might have been different. But since I am what I am, I can’t change myself. Btw, I am a very liberal guy considering the religion that I am a part of.</p>
<p>“If you can’t, perhaps you need another year of growing up at your community college. Do not bring your narrow mind to Austin.”</p>
<p>I hope you learned something about me today and might want to take back what you said above, if you are such a liberal person. And please at least think twice before insulting someone. If you want to end this argument here, I would be happy to do so because I don’t want to carry on such a conversation on this kind of forum.</p>
<p>I respect your religious beliefs NXT. But when a religion condemns the rights of a person, and its followers speak out against them, I must defend. </p>
<p>Argument over.</p>
<p>NXT, stop flaming; let’s get back on topic.</p>
<p>Requesting a different roommate should be done on the grounds of what they do, not who they are labeled as.</p>
<p>I’m a conservative, but even I know that if you don’t agree, you don’t belong in Austin.</p>
<p>cpq - how did you son’s friend find out? Is this for on campus housing?</p>
<p>Nxt, get out of Austin</p>
<p>Islam’s followers don’t speak out against people. Our book may look at homosexuality in an unfavorable light, but I am sure other books are the same. And we are tolerant people. Just because that is not the way we live our lives, doesn’t mean we cannot accept others. Islam preaches tolerance, believe it or not.</p>
<p>Queen- sorry, false alarm. No housing news yet that I know of.</p>
<p>Did any of you read “Argument over.” I’ve much more to say but I have shut up just because argument is over and as I said in every reply that arguing won’t be worthwhile especially on this forum. Everyone has different beliefs and rules they live their life by. Now I ask you guys to do the same and quit hittin replies over an ended argument. Thanks</p>
<p>I’d like to know why it takes almost a month to figure out where students will be living in the dorms on campus. It sounds like last year’s assignments were announced relatively quickly.</p>
<p>Assigning people based on single/double preferences, 5 different residence hall preferences, and a possible roommate preference is not an easy task. I am unsure how conflicts are handled, but writing even a computerized algorithm to incorporate these sorts of preferences is no easy task. It may be easy to put a certain number of people into their first preference, but perhaps it is better to put the greatest number of people, or those who registered earlier, etc. It’s a matter of dynamic programming algorithms to get the bulk of it done.</p>
<p>But there is no way that is completely how it is done, since that might take a week or so at most to process. What really matters is the collision handling that has to be done by hand. There are special cases that must be accounted for, special needs, etc.</p>
<p>Last year they came out apparently on July 11th. If they come out next week, it will only be about 10 more days that last year, certainly nothing to worry about. It’s not like your activities in the next month will change depending on finding out where you will live.</p>
<p>(Of course, I am still very eager to find out also!)</p>