<p>"About 50 schools in the U.S., including a few Ivy League campuses and several in California, are allowing men and women to room together."</p>
<p>Mixed-gender</a> dorm rooms are gaining acceptance - latimes.com</p>
<p>Hello and thank you for letting me be a part…</p>
<p>I had a female roommate (I am male) last year at Stanford and it was great :). My best roommate pairing at stanford for sure.</p>
<p>I dont know why so many people seem to have trouble with this idea.</p>
<p>the biggest problem I see is that couples end up living together, and by the middle of the year, they break up but are stuck living with each other until the end of the year.</p>
<p>Doesn’t sound weird to me at all</p>
<p>as long as you’re not a romantic couple, I think it would work out fine, if not better, than most roommate pairings. Pomona will start allowing mixed-gender rooms next year and I know a couple people considering it</p>
<p>I wouldn’t be comfortable living with a man I don’t know, I wouldn’t feel safe. If it is a friend I wouldn’t mind if we had separate bedrooms. At my school almost all the dorms are one room and a community bathroom, and I wouldn’t be comfortable with the level of privacy that would have if the genders were mixed. If it were a different layout it might work better.</p>
<p>I don’t know why this is such a big issue ahaha.
It’s just gender for heaven’s sake…sheesh! :P</p>
<p>Emerson will be allowing limited gender neutral housing beginning Fall '10.</p>
<p>@TwistedxKiss I think most of these schools would not force mixed gender rooms on anyone. It’s always something you opt into (at least that is the case at stanford). And, for all of the places on campus that officially have mixed gender rooms at stanford, each person has to have their own living space (i.e. a 2 room double, not a 1 room double).</p>
<p>i hope rice allows it… will be a different experience…</p>
<p>As far as couples living together, that certainly happens as well (this was the case with my neighbors last year actually). Stanford actually has a protocol in place for when those types of situations happen, so it was definitely thought about carefully. Ultimately though, its going to be the responsibility of the people in the relationship to decide if they can handle living together for a year, and no one else’s. It isn’t really the university’s place to tell people that their relationship is too volatile for them to room together.</p>
<p>^ Out of curiosity, what’s Stanford’s protocol for when couples room together?</p>
<p>I wasn’t clear enough: they have a system for moving people if a couple breaks up. they dont do anything in advance if a couple move in together.</p>
<p>Stanford has had an “unofficial” policy for at least 35 years. I graduated in 1974 and we had coed rooms that we arranged in a coed dorm. The showers were also coed. If you were on “the girls floor”, there were curtains in the showers, if you were on the “boys floor”, there were no curtains.
As I remember, sex was actually “down” - we treated each other more like brothers and sisters and for those who had no siblings, we learned alot.</p>
<p>It’s good that they have a contingency plan for couples living together/breaking up. It’s obviously going to happen sometime.</p>
<p>I think that that contingency plan is totally unjustified – it is the decision of couples to live together; they should also be aware of the consequences.</p>
<p>^^What??</p>
<p>It’s no difference if same-sex roommates break up due to irreconcilable differences. The school had better have a plan to enable them to live in campus housing, have a reasonably tolerable existence, and attend classes!</p>
<p>“@TwistedxKiss I think most of these schools would not force mixed gender rooms on anyone. It’s always something you opt into (at least that is the case at stanford). And, for all of the places on campus that officially have mixed gender rooms at stanford, each person has to have their own living space (i.e. a 2 room double, not a 1 room double).”</p>
<p>Students at my school, which does not have buildings to facilitate those arrangements, are lobbying hard or gender neutral housing. That’s where my reservation is. As long as I had my own bedroom an the ability to opt in or out, I would have no problem whatsoever. If I had a roommate in mind I might even prefer it that way, I don’t get along well with other girls. :P</p>
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<p>If the roommates choose to live together regardless of configuration, then they have chosen to accept potential risks of rooming with those people.</p>
<p>This is even more the case when the roommates are in a relationship. If the only reason for switching rooms is that they are no longer together, then they obviously should not be able to switch rooms.</p>
<p>On another note, I see no need for gender-neutral housing at all.</p>