Women-friendly campuses

celloguy
Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:31:13 +0000

JHJ – great post. All true. When I was in resi life, during the stone age, we put “men” on one wing, “women” on another, and never concerned ourselves with details (didn’t have ramps or elevators either, but nobody mentioned it). I see now some colleges have “rainbow” floors and other attempts at accommodating diversity. For a while I followed Wellesley’s struggle with transgender students (admitted as female, arrived on campus as male). Just now I went surfing for updates and came across a short, amusing piece by John Bloom (“Dear Mom and Dad, As My Gay Transvestite Roommate Was Saying the Other Day”); Bloom concludes by suggesting U.S. colleges might emulate Oxbridge: " “Here’s your apartment. We don’t want to know who comes in and goes out of it. Just show up for class.” Then fifty years later you read about the freaky stuff in a cabinet minister’s memoirs. By then the statute of limitations has run out. Believe me, it’s easier on everybody.