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I'm not sure I am ready for this. I had a really hard time finding a compatible roommate in college. I think I changed almost every semester. To me, having a young lady to share the room would have been far too much to deal with along with all the other "stuff" in life at that time...
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One boy, one girl -- one dorm room(AP)-- Erik Youngdahl and Michelle Garcia share a dorm room at Connecticut's Wesleyan University. But they say there's no funny business going on. Really. They mean it.  Erik Youngdahl and Michelle Garcia surf the internet in their room at Wesleyan University. They have set up their beds side-by-side like Lucy and Ricky in "I Love Lucy" and avert their eyes when one of them is changing clothes. "People are shocked to hear that it's happening and even that it's possible," said Youngdahl, a 20-year-old sophomore. But "once you actually live in it, it doesn't actually turn into a big deal." 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. As shocking as it sounds to some parents, some students and schools say it's not about sex. Instead, they say the demand is mostly from heterosexual students who want to live with close friends who happen to be of the opposite sex. Some gay students who feel more comfortable rooming with someone of the opposite sex are also taking advantage of the option. "It ultimately comes down to finding someone that you feel is compatible with you," said Jeffrey Chang, a junior at Clark in Worcester, Massachusetts, who co-founded the National Student Genderblind Campaign, a group that is pushing for gender-neutral housing. "Students aren't doing this to make a point. They're not doing this to upset their parents. It's really for practical reasons." |
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| Hmm, at a Weslyan University......not what I thought would come out of the holiness movement. I also think Wesley would like to have his name removed from this university. |
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| Dennis, Oberlin is one of the colleges listed above. If I recall correctly, Charles Finney was its first or second president. Wonder if he would approve... |
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May 05, 2008 at 9:30am |
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| wow, I expect that my son's school will join the list soon. They are completely coed, except by room. It would be the next logical step. My son actually likes it be cause it makes everyone keep things a little neater and cleaner. He spent a semester in an all male house and it was way to much for him, so he moved back into the coed dorms to find a little peace and quiet. |
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| I lived in a fraternity in college, and there were times that it was not a good place to be living. Our dorms were all segregated by sex, so there wasn't any opportunity for coed dorms. |
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Kris |
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May 11, 2008 at 10:47pm |
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| Coming from a college student (me!), this is probably one of the dumbest things I've heard of. What happens if a boy and girl who are dating decide to dorm together? In most terms, colleges are liberal enough,so why much they add one more liberal measure to the ruler! Argh! |
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Being a young Christian woman who DID cohabit with my then-fiance, I can honestly say, that you CAN cohabit in a Christian manner... meaning, sleeping in different bedrooms, respecting boundaries that are PRE-set, and working on team work (in a house). College is a bit different, but contrary to what some believe, it's NOT all about sex. It's the young people in my generation that make a "scene" that create the stereotype for the rest of us that it is all about sex.
Sometimes, when your family is 1200 miles away, you have no friends where you are because you moved to be closer, it's your only option to make ends meet. I'm not agreeing, I'm not disagreeing. I'm just sharing my POV. I've done it. No lines were crossed. Not everyone is that mature to handle a situation like that, but we were. It's not always the smartest move, but sometimes it is... for practical reasons. |
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| Amanda, thanks for the different perspective. I guess we tend to make a lot of assumptions in these cases... |
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Sure, it's possible. And platonic relationships exist. Some for a while........some forever. but..........
Avoiding temptation ! Still a good thing ! |
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