Dartmouth Expands Sex-blind Dorm Room Assignments

In its policy to allow anybody room with anybody, Dartmouth College is supporting the Gay Agenda proposition that there are not two genders, but rather a spectrum of gender where no one is male or female.

But for some, reality hits home:

“It would theoretically be a good idea [but] . . . We all use the same bathrooms, and you can’t really have boys and girls using the same bathroom in a way that makes everyone feel comfortable.”
-- Anoush Arakelian, student housing intern

For background, read Rutgers Co-ed Dorms & Showers: Gay Agenda and also read Co-ed Locker Rooms at Iowa College - Anything Goes

UPDATE 5/3/12: Princeton, UPenn, Chicago Now Offer ‘Gender-Neutral Housing' for Undergrads

-- From "College to expand gender-neutral housing options in fall" by Amelia Acosta, The Dartmouth Staff 4/26/12

As Dartmouth students gear up for room draw, they will have additional options for gender-neutral housing . . .

The Housing Office has seen “a lot of interest” in more options for male and female cohabitation on campus, [student housing intern, Maia] Matsushita said.

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From "Dartmouth: Dorm Assignments Will Not be 'Limited by Traditional Gender Binary'" by Susan Jones, CNSNews.com 4/30/12

People who wish to join the gender-neutral affinity program must fill out a special application, which asks, among other things, if a student is male, female, or intersex. It also poses the question, "Do you have a third-person pronoun you prefer to be addressed by? If so, which one?"

For the class of 2014, Dartmouth says it received 18,778 applications, and of that number, 1,139 students were enrolled.

Undergraduate tuition, room, board and mandatory fees run around $55,365 a year.

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Also read More Than Two Genders, Kindergartners Taught

Co-ed Locker Rooms at Iowa College - Anything Goes

Like so many institutions of "higher learning," Grinnell College has taken the sexualization craze and "gender neutral" to the next extreme by encouraging boys and girls to shower together.

For background and lists of such colleges, read Rutgers Co-ed Dorms & Showers: Gay Agenda and also read Sexually Confused Legislation Killed in Maryland

-- From "College adds locker rooms to gender-neutral policy" by Mike Kilen and Adam Belz, USA TODAY 11/10/11

In what the National Student Genderblind Campaign calls a "rapidly growing collegiate movement," at least 54 colleges and universities across the country, many of them private, provide gender-neutral housing options this year.

[James Baumann, spokesman for the Association of College and University Housing Officers — International said] "It's usually a campus responding to a need. If the student body either overtly expresses a desire for this, or if the housing staff perceives a need for it, that's when they pursue this as an option."

At Grinnell, the gender-neutral idea was driven by transgender students, those who don't identify themselves as either male or female, and students transitioning from one gender to the other, students and school officials said.

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From "Iowa College Allows Students to Share 'Gender-Neutral' Locker Rooms" by Ray Downs, Christian Post Reporter 11/9/11

"This is a comfortable option for those that have trouble deciding whether to go to the bathroom - with the skirt or the pants on the sign," said Andrea Conner, director of residence life and orientation.

In the residence halls, students vote on whether or not the bathrooms are gender neutral.

With the changes at Grinnell College, at least one transgender student has said the attitude towards gender has made life easier.

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Rutgers Co-ed Dorms & Showers: Gay Agenda

In response to the widely-reported suicide of a homosexual student, New Jersey's Rutgers University has decided to have girls and boys sleep next to each other, and share the same showers.

Makes no sense, you say? Perhaps a more advanced degree would help (or maybe an ivory tower office)?

-- From "Rutgers to offer 'gender neutral' housing after student's suicide" by Marisa Kendall, USA TODAY 3/1/11

Rutgers instated the new gender-neutral housing after members of the university's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) community advocated the change, said The Daily Targum, the university paper.

Co-ed housing will be offered in three residents halls and will not be an option for freshmen. Only students who already know each other can live together in gender-neutral rooms. Two residents halls will also have new gender-neutral bathrooms (with new locks on the shower stalls).

Co-ed housing can ease an LGBTQ student's fear of not being accepted by his or her assigned roommate, Joan Carbone, executive director of Residence Life told The Daily Targum.

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From "Rutgers University Implements Co-Ed Dorms After Student's Suicide" by WPIX Newsroom 3/1/11

As part of a new gender-neutral program, Rutgers University will soon allow students to share a dorm with a roommate of the opposite sex.

Under the new program, gay, lesbian and transgender students will get the option of having either a male or female roommate. Heterosexual students will also be permitted to dorm with students of the opposite sex.

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From "Rutgers to introduce co-ed dorms" by CNN 3/1/11

The gender-neutral housing pilot program starts in the fall and is aimed at helping gay students feel more safe and comfortable. But it's not just for gay students.

"I think my parents would be fine with it," said [student] Alex Sullivan. "It's obvious it's supposed to be like you're living with a friend, not with like a girlfriend or something. So if you trust us to be adults, which you should because we're all adults, it makes sense to me."

The executive director for residence life says the school will not ask housing candidates if they are romantically involved.

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From "Rutgers Okays 'Gender-Neutral' Dorm Rooms to Help Gays Feel Safer" By Bonnie Rochman, Time Magazine 3/3/11

Now New Jersey's state university has become the latest to announce it will allow male and female students to share a dorm room, in an effort to make the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community of students feel right at home.

Two months ago, Joan Carbone, the university's executive director of residence life, met with student representatives of the college's LGBT community . . .

Rutgers is calling its new co-ed living arrangements “gender-neutral housing” because students can choose to live with whomever they want: two men, two women or a woman and a man. Freshmen will not be able to select a roommate, but they can indicate a preference for an open-minded person who is welcoming of different sexual orientations.

Parents unhappy with such an unorthodox dorm-room living situation are pretty much out of luck since housing contracts are signed by students. “We won't be talking to parents about this,” says Carbone.

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Click headlines below to read previous articles:

'Gender-neutral' Dorm Roommates Latest Trend

Girls Fear 51-year-old Dorm-mate 'Former Man'

Vermont Student Sues over Co-ed Showers & Toilets

Ohio Univ. Gender-neutral Dorm Living

Texas Christian University Provides Homosexual-designated Housing

Univ. of Chicago Provides Coed Dorm Rooms

Univ. of Pittsburgh Opens Girls' Dorm to Cross-dressing Men

Colleges Offering Coed Dorm Rooms

Ohio Univ. Gender-neutral Dorm Living

Ohio University will begin facilitating students of any gender and/or sexual orientation to share dorm rooms, so as to better accommodate students who are not simply a boy or a girl.

"And it's the right thing to do, even if it upsets some people," said Kent Smith, vice president for student affairs.

-- From "Ohio Univ. to try letting men and women room together, plan said to help transgender students" by The Associated Press 1/13/11

It's an idea that was pushed on behalf of the school's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Center. Center Director Mickey Hart tells the student-run newspaper The Post the gender-neutral housing will be of particular benefit to students who identify as transgender.

Student Senate member Sean Martin says students in dating relationships who try to live together under the new housing option will be "frowned upon."

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From "Dorm barriers dropping at Ohio U." by Encarnacion Pyle, The Columbus Dispatch 1/13/11

Housing officials at the Athens campus had been independently studying the issue since the summer as a way to allow all students - gay, bisexual or straight - to pick their most-compatible roommates.

About 55 schools nationwide, including the Columbus College of Art & Design, Miami University and Oberlin College, allow some students of the opposite sex to share housing. Denison and Wright State University are studying the possibility.

Ohio University will discourage romantic partners from living together, but the school won't prohibit it.

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From "Ohio University to allow male-female roommates" by Lauren Bishop, Cincinnati.Com 1/13/11

But one parent of college-aged children, Lisa Schoenberger of Reading, said she wouldn't approve of such a living situation.

"All I can say as a parent is that if I'm paying for my child's education, they will abide by my rules and morals," she said. "I don't feel that it's moral to live with a member of the opposite sex before marriage. I know some will say that 'It's only platonic' but that doesn't cut it for me. Either agree to follow my rules when I'm footing the bill or pay for it yourself."

Jennifer Reed of Union Township, 28, said . . . "I think this experiment is a step in the right direction to accommodate and reflect the variety and scope of relationships found in the real world."

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'Gender-neutral' Dorm Roommates Latest Trend

The University of Arizona is considering a pilot program that would allow students of the opposite sex to live in the same dorm room, an option designed to make gay students feel more comfortable living on campus.

. . . universities are trying to take the ideological position that gender is arbitrary and socially meaningless.


-- From "University of Arizona considers co-ed dorm rooms" posted at KVOA TV4 Tucson AZ 11/23/10

The proposal right now would only make about five of the thousands of dorms here on campus "gender inclusive."

They are also looking into making a small wing of about twenty rooms exclusive to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students.

Opponents of the idea are now speaking out. Religious defense group Alliance Defense says this will encourage sexual harrassment issues on campus.

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From "University of Arizona considering mixed-gender housing" by Anne Ryman, The Arizona Republic 11/22/10

Also known as gender-neutral, open housing or mixed-gender housing, the option is a growing trend on U.S. college campuses. It is offered to a varying degree at more than 50 colleges and universities, from elite private schools such as Dartmouth College to large public universities such as the University of California-Berkeley. Most of the policies have been enacted in the past five years.

Supporters say the option provides comfort and a feeling of security for groups that are vulnerable to harassment, such as students who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or questioning their sexuality.

"That's completely at odds with common sense," said David French, senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, a Scottsdale-based Christian organization that seeks to preserve family values.

Critics also say universities shouldn't be subsidizing "poor choices" by mixing different sexes in the same rooms. College students already struggle with plenty of issues, including binge drinking, depression and anxiety, French said.

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Vermont Student Sues over Co-ed Showers & Toilets

The female Green Mountain College student claims state building codes require restroom privacy, which is not provided to her with "flimsy plastic curtains" and men urinating in her view.

-- From "Suit filed over Green Mountain College co-ed bathrooms" by Tim Johnson, Burlington Free Press Staff Writer, 12/19/09

Jennifer Weiler, 19, a first-year student from Sandgate, contends that the college’s failure to designate separate bathrooms for males and females violates state-adopted building and plumbing codes that the Department of Public Safety is charged with enforcing. DPS is listed as the defendant in the civil complaint, filed Monday in Washington County Superior Court.

DPS has reportedly taken the position that the code requirements don’t apply to existing buildings in which the plumbing hasn’t been changed or altered, as is apparently the case with the college’s dorms. A Green Mountain College spokesman declined comment on the suit Friday.

Green Mountain College, a private institution in Poultney, was all-female until it went co-ed in 1975. Today, it, has 820 undergraduates and seven residence halls. All the dorms are co-ed — some floors are single-gender, some are mixed.

Most dormitories across the country, including those at the University of Vermont and at Champlain College, are co-ed. St. Michael’s College, however, does not have co-ed dorms.

“The co-ed bathrooms have no doors on the showers, just flimsy plastic curtains,” the suit states. “Men will use the toilets without closing the door. Plaintiff and others are uncomfortable under these circumstances.”

“I can’t think of a single public building (other than a dorm) that has a co-ed bathrooms where men and women co-mingle,” said Pamela Moreau, Weiler’s lawyer, in an e-mail. “We understand that some people are fine with co-ed bathrooms, but we don’t think it should be forced on people who object to them, for whatever reason.”

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Univ. of Chicago Provides Coed Dorm Rooms

There are reportedly coed [dorm rooms] at more than 30 campuses around the country, including Wesleyan University and Oberlin College.

-- From "U of C Lets Coeds Sleep Together" NBC TV5 Chicago 12/20/08

This may shock you. Young men and women will be sleeping together at the University of Chicago. Not like that. The school known for big IQ's has a big idea to create coed dorm rooms.

Male and female students will share rooms in a pilot program that begins next month. University officials say the idea came from students. Shocker.

"In today's day and age it's not really fair to discriminate based on gender anymore," Asha Woodall, 19, a sophomore at the U. of C. to the Chicago Tribune. "Sexuality is more of a spectrum."

Teenage girls . . . Can anyone say naive?

Colleges Offering Coed Dorm Rooms

From "Colleges are allowing coed dorm rooms" by Michelle R. Smith, posted 5/2/08 at YahooNews.com

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.

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.

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