<p>My experience in the mid 70’s was similar to Bearparents. Though my freshman dorm was coed by room there was one girls bathroom at one end of a very long hall and the guys bathroom was at the other end. No one paid any attention to that and just used the bathroom closest to their room. </p>
<p>My son has lived in large houses owned by his college for the last two years. About 35 students live in a house. Only two bathrooms in each and I assume they are coed, in not in fact, certainly by use.</p>
<p>He is also at a school which now allows coed roommates.</p>
<p>speaking from my son’s perspective–he would much rather have had co-ed public bathrooms with appropriate privacy protections (as he had sophomore year) than a suite with a private bathroom–and a suite mate whose girl friend was always taking long showers, and leaving long red hair in the shower to boot.</p>
<p>My son and his 4 roommates have to clean their 4 bd, 2 bath suite.</p>
<p>I think having coed floors is a bad idea and community bathrooms is a worse idea but as long as there are options for students who want a single sex floor with a male or female only bathroom, to each his own.</p>
<p>I don’t know if that’s true any more emilybee. Williams has no single-sex housing and no way to guarantee a single-sex bathroom. It’s a question to investigate if it’s an issue for a student.</p>
<p>D3 is in a 2 bedroom suite with a bathroom and one roommate. The university cleans the bathroom once a month…so the girls clean it 3 times a month. I am sure the university is just trying to protect their property by not letting it go too long. They’re expensive though. She will probably have an apartment next year. Her current dorm is cooed by room/suite.</p>
<p>How do you make the leap from not agreeing that young women need to be protected from their peers to saying there are no differences between men & women? </p>
<p>dont you think there is greater variability within a group, than between groups?</p>
<p>I’m male and while I wouldn’t say I’m pro coed bathrooms I’d certainly pick one to get to use the closer bathroom rather than a longer walk to a single sex bathroom.</p>
<p>As mathmom points out, I am male, I have a daughter, and I am solidly in the “no big deal” camp on coed bathrooms.</p>
<p>My daughter, by the way, has had at least one unrelated, un-romantically-involved male apartment-mate in three of the last seven years, with no ill consequences (and many good ones). Bathrooms have been shared. My son has shared his apartment (and its bathrooms) with at least one woman four out of six years, although for one of them the woman was a relative. In his case, there was often a girlfriend around, too, so even when he had a male apartment-mate there was still long hair in the shower and tampon wrappers in the garbage. Having shared a bathroom with his sister for all of her pre-college life, and on trips and visits home thereafter, he was never phased by either.</p>
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