Further evidence that our culture is going to hell in a hand-basket, some colleges are now allowing coed dorm rooms.
[AP] In the prim 1950s, college dorms were off-limits to members of the opposite sex. Then came the 1970s, when male and female students started crossing paths in coed dormitories. Now, to the astonishment of some Baby Boomer parents, a growing number of colleges are going even further: coed rooms.
At least two dozen schools, including Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania, Oberlin College, Clark University and the California Institute of Technology, allow some or all students to share a room with anyone they choose — including someone of the opposite sex. This spring, as students sign up for next year’s room, more schools are following suit, including Stanford University.
There isn’t enough coed copulation going on, now we need to put them in the same room together. Progressivism is a disease that rots the mind as well as the soul.
College kids call this nonsense “roomcest”, enlightened educators call it “gender neutrality”, the Church calls it “sin”, I call it “stupid.” Any bettors on when Georgetown will implement this policy?
Parents pay for “room and board” not “room and scored!”
May 4, 2008 at 4:48 am
“Any bettors on when Georgetown will implement this policy?”
What? They haven’t yet?
May 4, 2008 at 6:39 am
Well, I suppose it’s better than guys sodomizing each other….
In this day and age when even the seminaries are full of back-door bandits, we must be thankful for small mercies, I suppose.
May 4, 2008 at 6:16 pm
This cheesy arrangement will probably be used mostly by boyfriends/girlfriends. So what does the school do when the inevitable breakups occur and everyone wants to change rooms? Someone didn’t think this through.
May 4, 2008 at 8:04 pm
What kind of parent would financially assist their daughters in these situations?
May 5, 2008 at 1:20 am
What kind of parent would financially assist their daughters in these situations?
I live in a town full of parents who would, except their daughters will never make it to college because they’re already having babies in high school.
May 5, 2008 at 2:56 pm
My alma mater is not listed by name in your quote, but they instituted coed rooms a year or two ago. They claim it’s mostly for people who are homosexual and prefer not to be living with someone of the same sex. Also, each of the “rooms” includes separate bedrooms with locks.
I’m still very uncomfortable with the idea and it’s one of the many reasons I would encourage my children NOT to attend this college, even though my husband and I both had good experiences there.
What’s wrong with just letting kids have single rooms? I was married before I graduated. I wonder if they would allow my husband and I to share one of the rooms on campus? (Another couple who looked into it was denied housing as a married couple the year after I graduated.)
May 5, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Lead your kids not into temptation, but allow them coed room and board?