<p>I just fail to see why college students hooking up without “expecting anything further” is something that should be cracked down upon. Sure, it might produce depression or whatever in some individuals, but so can anything else - hell, college itself may produce depression in some individuals. The majority of those who engage in those behaviors are fine. I fail to see why anyone cares what adults do in their spare time.</p>
<p>I don’t even understand why some people have problems with the existence of co-ed housing (or at least the students who choose such). When I was little, my parents would occasionally mention their college years. When that happened, my extremely religious, militantly conservative mother, who went to college in a less liberal time, would occasionally mention “the boys across the hall” or something. She went to a college where there were no single-sex floors, let alone single-sex dorms. Since she did not and does not have the faintest problem with it, to this day, I find other people’s strenuous objections somewhat befuddling. (I would have no problem with providing single sex dorms as an option, though.)</p>
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<p>I’m fine with single-sex dorms. I’m also fine with mixed-sex dorms. Since the article is about a Catholic school, I should point out that many high-profile Catholic schools have mixed-sex dorms (including CUA apparently, for now), both by floor and by room. Any college can switch types of dorms, it’s in their right. Would I care? No. Would the people at half a hundred state universities care? Quite possibly. So it’s probably a smart move for a school to consult its students before making switches either way.</p>
<p>To any girl that says that want to experience living with guys… are you sure? I mean you’ll be there two semesters, haha, no backing out.</p>
<p>Girls have cooties.</p>
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<p>I lived with 2 guys last semester essentially. I have also lived in houses with 3 late teens/early 20s guys and I as the only girl. Never had an issue with it. I get along better with guys than girls…</p>
<p>Also, you can change rooms at the semester point usually without much problem.</p>
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Even in the most integrated dorms, the rooms are still either male or female, so it doesn’t seem like there’s a big deal. Also, colleges generally allow dorm switches under certain circumstances, though I don’t imagine many people needing to do this.</p>
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<p>Gender-neutral housing. There are universities that already practice this and more and more are adopting similar policies.</p>
<p>I wonder why?
Think maybe its an expense thing? Where it costs less for the school to fill up a single building co-ed like, instead of blocking off whole buildings as male/female, paying the expense on them, but only having them half full or less some years? Just speculating…</p>
<p>I lived in an all-girls dorm my freshman year. It wasn’t my first choice of housing, but oh well I got stuck with it. The dorm was actually a house, and it housed around 100 girls. It had more of a sorority feel to it than an actual dorm, like we had a lot of girly activities that our dorm sponsored. Going into it, I didn’t think I’d enjoy living with all girls, but it wasn’t actually THAT bad. I made a lot of a really good friendships that I probably wouldn’t have made in the other dorms… However, it was so hard to meet guys!! haha It was so annoying. Other than that, I liked everything about. The common areas were pretty clean, and I wore whatever around the dorms because there were no guys there to impress haha</p>
<p>^ having all buildings single-sex would be somewhat limiting … but most schools could have all dorms single sex except one which is mixed sex and probably make it work (at least schools that control their F/M ratio during admissions so the # of males and females is pretty predictable). Why don’t schools do this? … I do not know but I can guess … that the vast majority of students prefer living in mixed sex dorms.</p>
<p>all students should live in the same dorm if the host country or culture feels that their people is civilized enough. in these modern times, anything short of integration of people and resources will be wasteful and mostly discriminatory except for those who expressly refuse it due to their cultures, personal ethics or religion.</p>
<p>Ok yes you can move, but its not as easy as just wanting to.</p>
<p>Also, by my comment I meant this. From my experience guys live “sloppier” than girls. Some may not be used to that or not enjoy it.</p>
<p>Yes some guys are like that too, but like I said, I’m going off of personal experience</p>
<p>As a VP for Student Affairs at a university, I can tell you that coed housing consistently improves most of the negative behavior that can occur in college housing. It normalizes male-female relationships instead of creating a sexually predatory environment and it helps to rein in male excesses. Instead of triggering promiscuity it tends to trigger more natural friendships and honest relationships - students who tend toward either promiscuity or celibacy don’t make that choice on the basis of mere proximity or convenience. As for the greater drinking in the study cited, I have no doubt that the 13% of the sample who lived in single-gender housing constituted a different initial behavioral sample from the 87% in coed housing. Even if they were assigned there by their school, they chose to attend one of the schools that still assigns students to single-gender housing and they didn’t raise enough of a fuss when assigned there to get relocated to a coed hall.</p>
<p>Coed housing (by room or suite) is the way of the real world. If the students in college housing eventually move off campus into an apartment, they’re not going to find an apartment complex that offers all-male and all-female buildings.</p>
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<p>What I find most hilarious is that, regardless of if you go to college or not, there are young people who still do this. Not saying that all young people are sexual promiscuous, but I enjoy knowing there are people who believe that going to college = you will be loose with your sexuality. Hah!</p>
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<p>This is one of the greatest things I have read on this board and I am reposting it for emphasis.</p>
<p>I lived in co-ed dorms my whole time at UVA. Dorms there are co-ed by floor. I had friends at a small private Christian university who lived in single sex dorms. Guys had a curfew on the days they were even allowed in (it was called Visitation or something else ridiculous) and they had to do all group studying and projects in the libraries instead of with their snacks, TV, and relaxing dorm atmosphere. They had to keep the door propped at all times too. Haha. I thought it was ridiculous how they were micromanaging their lives. The girls really liked it despite the inconveniences. It would have driven me bonkers, especially considering my GAY FRIENDS haha. 5/8 of the floor below me my first year was gay. Anyways. It was inconvenient to be sexiled or otherwise endure a roommate’s boyfriend, but I equally took advantage of that benefit so if you want to be able to do it you gotta be able to handle it also. Boys weren’t really ever in my bathroom and no one was looking anyways so it was not a big deal. I can see how it would be an issue for first years if they were mixed up unwillingly, and where do you draw the line between parents forced me not to and I actually don’t want to, but the by-floor thing works really well at UVA. ALSO my dorm was a residential college so we all ate together, threw great social events, etc and just girls would NOT have been the same!! The community was great because of the diversity of years (it was not just first year housing, but traditional first year housing at UVA is to be fair) and also genders.</p>
<p>Forgive my ignorance, but when they say different-sex dorms, they don’t mean a girl and boy living in the same room together, or do they mean they’ll be a boy/boy in dorm 1, girl/girl in dorm 2, ect…?</p>
<p>I think they mean coed dorms as in coed by floor or wing. Single-sex dorms would mean all guys or all girls in the whole building. There are some schools that allow girls and guys to live in the same room together, though.</p>
<p>^coed by floor, or wing, or every other room.</p>
<p>The most typical residence hall (as opposed to apartment-style) configuration these days is in suites consisting of a pair of double rooms connected by a shared bathroom between them. Coed may mean by floor; it’s more common for it to be by suite, so that all the users of a single bathroom are the same sex. In older facilities, there are still large bathrooms that serve an entire floor; in that case, it might be coed by room. And as mentioned above, some places allow mixed-sex roommates, though that’s certainly still a relatively small proportion of the whole.</p>