Gender Neutral Housing

alwaysamom
Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:23:19 +0000

I, personally, do not have a problem with it. It isn’t a policy which is going to force anyone to live with someone of a different gender, as far as I know. It will be handled through requests only, and will not apply to freshmen. I know that gay and lesbian campus organizations have been working on this issue for a few years and hopefully it will help them in the difficulties that some of them face in dorm situations. I’ll be anxious to hear how many straight kids actually make such a request. Somehow, I don’t think there will be that many, and the ones who do, if they’re couples, are obviously already sleeping with each other anyway. At least this way, there will be no sexiled roommates. But, as I said, I can’t see a huge demand arising from this change in policy.