Top 10 Reasons to Support Coed Dorm Rooms in College
In response to news that coed dorm rooms are becoming de rigeur on campuses across the country, I have the following to say:
Are you out of your cotton-pickin’ mind? (Wait, can I say that or is it un-PC?)
I’ve been out a college for fifteen years now and it was the best 5 years of my life. Until the next five years. And then the five years after that. Yeah, college is fun but a lot of us have too much fun and make a lot of mistakes. For example, I was seventeen when I started freshman year and therefore had a rather strict curfew. I missed it the first night of orientation and was put on probation before my mom had even left town. See – stupid, stupid, stupid.
Apparently, teens are much smarter, more sophisticated and more mature these days. Because of this some colleges and universities are allowing them to room with members of the opposite sex. (Wait, I need to stop and giggle for a minute.) I can’t even write it with a straight face. What kind of slacker parent would allow this? And how can a college board think this is a good idea? Well, I’ve compiled the following list of reasons to support the idea – I hope you enjoy.
Top 10 Reasons to Support Coed Dorm Rooms in College
10. Extra income from rental of school cafeterias for student weddings.
9. The ugly girls will work harder on their appearance.
8. Spring break can be cancelled – totally unnecessary.
7. Students will “turn-in” earlier.
6. Purchase of condoms featuring school logo is tax deductible.
5. Free publicity in Christian Science Monitor.
4. We can have a “Cutest Baby Conceived on Campus” contest every year.
3. College is tough enough as it is. Why not make having sex easier?
2. Why should the gays get all the perks?
1. It’s all a left-wing plot to punish young women, thereby reinforcing the argument for comprehensive sex education in Kindergarten.
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Yeah, this was a head-scratcher for me too. Who comes up with these ideas?!
Liberals.
I have a friend at UC Santa Cruz who has gender neutral housing. It is really no big deal. The dorms are so tiny, most people hang out in other places.
I live with three women with two men right next door–I seem to remember that having different sexes rooming on the same floor got almost all of your arguments when that was first suggested. The way modern teens see this, is dating people on your floor is incest unless you really like each other–because you will be living together while dating, and if you break up, you will still be living together. Living with or next to people who have the equipment you are attracted to is so unimportant.
btw, what if I were a lesbian woman and did not want another woman sleeping in the same room as me–should not I be able to live with someone who I had no interest in like the hets?
Having lived in sex segregated and sex integrated housing, I find that sex integrated housing is much more comfortable because it built around the assumption that I will have sex. I found living with only women created a much more promiscuous environment than when I lived with both genders–frankly, men are a lot less romantic when you see them at 8am on the way to class.
Forcing people to live in a sexually charged atmosphere is wrong–whether in a catholic boarding school where male teachers spank teenage boys as punishment or through housing. However, if John and Kitty are friends and want to room together, I could care less.
I thought you were maybe the most enlightened college student ever – right up until you flew into left field with that Catholic school jab. Geez, couldn’t you be a bit more original? Isn’t poking fun at the Catholic church taking the easy way out? Or are you Bill Maher?
I don’t really care whether you care or not – the people who get to decide where students are housed are the people paying the bills – most often the parents.
Coed dorm rooms? Why? I wouldn’t want to room with someone of the other sex unless I was already romantically involved with the person. And even then, we’d probably just skip the cramped student housing and get an apartment. Now, I live in a dorm with coed floors, and I think that’s perfectly fine. Of course, considering my social life, I probably wouldn’t notice if my dorm was made single-sex tomorrow. Ah well.
Hi Cody, nice to hear from you again. See, I knew it. You are young. But apparently you haven’t been completely led astray. Common sense is lurking in there somewhere. The one thing about co-ed dorm rooms that has not been brought up is the assault issue. We’ve all heard multiple stories about date rape. I hope I never hear a story about roommate rape. This is a real possibility. I don’t buy the argument that somehow college students these days are more enlightened and therefore better equipped to live in coed situations. I mean, look at how alcohol consumption is on the rise.
Well, good luck with the social life thing. My advice would be to join a club – maybe Young Republicans? they smell better and dress better.
The student is a renter, the university is a landlord, they’re responding to supply and demand.
Suddenly the GOP doesn’t favor a free market?
But what if the student is not the one paying? What if the parents are paying? What if I’m paying through my tax dollars? But hey, with all our brave, new, smart, Liberal, evolved college age kids (and they are kids, BTW) why not? Condoms are handed out at campus health centers, as is the pill and abortion is available at a moment’s notice, after all. Why not let them just experiment? The statistics that show sexual activity at younger and younger ages every generation mean nothing. The rising instance of “friend sex” is not worth mentioning. Although, as a girl, can I just say what no boy wants to hear? If a girl has sex with a boy – she wants a relationship, whether she says it or even knows it herself. Nothing good will ever come of this. The “Co-ed dorm rooms” debate is like the gay marriage campaign – just another way for annoying people to get under the skin of the majority. It’s pointless.
And this is not strictly a demand being supplied – otherwise pedophilia would be legal. Some things are just not available for purchase/rent in a free market economy because many people will never recognize what’s “not” good for them.
Well im not in college yet im still in highschool but im planning on going to college in two years. my english teacher gave my class an assignment about co-ed dorm rooms in colleges and she told us to express how we felt about it and to come up with several reasons on what we believe in. i chose to go for co-ed dorms because to me when you reach college you should have reached a maturity level. college students should have the right to make their own decisions. they should be responsible enough to know what is best for them. if the college students have self-control then they could control themselves around people of the opposite sex. plus the roommate doesnt necisarily have to be straight a lot of females would rather share a room with a gay male than with a female. what i know from experience is that females cause a lot of drama men are a little more mellow about situations. im a female and i choose not to hang out with females because men are much cooler to hang out with. females spread to much gossip and talk to much crap. if u live with one they will find out and know a lot about you and they will most likely spread it. I understand about leaving open doors to more college girls getting pregnant but that happens anyways. guys sneak in to girl dorms to do things it just makes it easier if they have co-ed dorms but it’s the same thing. you ever heard of the saying you never know somebody until you live with them. well it’s true! many of the older people can testify. if you live in a dorm with your significant other you have the chance to experience how they are. instead of not knowing what your getting yourself into you actually will know through this college experience. these are my REAL reasons for allowing co-ed dorms!!!