<p>UCLA is considering a plan that would put young men and women in the same dorm room, under certain conditions.</p>
<p>The campus newspaper reports “gender inclusive” dorm life, as suggested by UCLA Housing Services, is now being considered by the Office of Residential Life.</p>
<p>You mean this?</p>
<p>[UCLA</a> May OK Co-Ed Roommates To Accommodate Transgender Students CBS Los Angeles](<a href=“http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/10/10/ucla-may-ok-co-ed-roommates-to-accomodate-transgender-students/]UCLA”>http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/10/10/ucla-may-ok-co-ed-roommates-to-accomodate-transgender-students/)</p>
<p>“Certain conditions” would be limited to the students involved actually requesting a co-ed room. So don’t worry about it if you do not want a co-ed room.</p>
<p>this ain’t new. Many colleges have already gone down that path.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t offering co-ed dorm rooms under “certain conditions” only, be discriminatory against students who desire co-ed rooms who choose to exist in “conditions” other than those UCLA requires?</p>
<p>While accommodating transgender students was the initial motivation, there is no indication that co-ed room requests would be limited to only transgender students.</p>
<p>You mean like what happens when some opposite gender students move off campus and live together?</p>
<p>Erin’s Dad has a good point. A lot of kids who move off-campus live in apartments with opposite-sex roommates. Sometimes there are romantic relationships involved; sometimes not. In either case, nobody particularly notices or cares.</p>
<p>There’s no great difference in allowing the same sort of thing on campus, as long as opposite-sex roommates who do not know each other are not forced to room together, a situation that would almost certainly be uncomfortable, at least for the woman.</p>
<p>I’m all for a variety of educational opportunities at college. (Boy it really hurts when I bite the inside of my lip hard.)</p>
<p>I think it’s a great idea. My son and his good friends wanted to room together on campus this year but could not because his friend is a woman. They lucked out in that they are both in the same dorm, only one floor apart. </p>
<p>They are strictly friends as my son is gay but even if he were not, if they both want to be roommates, what harm does that do to anyone else?</p>
<p>Better question…what took them so long? Oberlin has had them for decades. :D</p>
<p>Why would anyone choose to room with a female?</p>
<p>Given my D’s problems with female roommates, I wish she had this option. She has several gay male friends who would be a much better fit.</p>
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<li><p>Because they’re dating, and this way nobody has to be sexiled.</p></li>
<li><p>Because the guy is gay and prefers to room with someone whom he can’t possibly be attracted to and/or who won’t be uncomfortable with his sexual orientation.</p></li>
<li><p>Because they’re friends.</p></li>
<li><p>Because they have compatible lifestyles.</p></li>
<li><p>Because they’re part of a mixed-gender group of friends who all want to live near each other, and if this involves one or more people sharing a room or suite with a member of the opposite sex, so what?</p></li>
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<p>Pick one or more of the above.</p>