<p>I kind of doubt it, but does anyone remember when Margaret Mead spoke to the student body at Vassar way back in 1972 when coed same floor living was so new and highly controversial? Margaret Mead’s lecture turned out to be an extensive commentary on her “A Cross-Cultural View of Human Sexuality” and she proudly predicted that this “experiment” would be a great success because residents of coed dorms would observe self-imposed restrictions on dating with their “brothers and sisters” by creating an implicit “incest taboo”. Extended dorm family or not, most students did (and I do suppose do) settle into a platonic pattern of dorm-residential life and whatever went on behind closed doors was fine as long as the door was closed. So, we have been down this road quite a while now and coed rooms are a just new wrinkle and just as controversial for all the same reasons- really, when you think about it, the more things change, the more they stay the same.</p>