Columbia University Students Threaten to End Default Same-Sex Housing!
Oh NOZE! College is supposed to be the place where, forced to share a dorm room with others who share your genitalia, young people find it easy to “experiment” with the same sex. And maybe give your roommate a helping hand every now and then! But now Columbia University’s student government wants to join some two dozen other colleges nationwide and let underclassmen choose to live with people of the opposite sex! Supposedly it’s out of a crisis in available housing for students, but we suspect more nefarious intentions: Eliminating the god given right for all college students to see their same-sex dorm mates in a state of undress. Luckily, the proposal, which students hope takes effect by next fall, wouldn’t apply to freshman — you know, when sexuality is most malleable.
(Oh, this is about giving gay students the option to live with non-threatening females? And letting transgender students get away with not having to check a box on their gender? And letting those annoying straight couples shack up together? Fine. Sounds good to us!)
(Thanks, Sean!)
The University of California, Riverside has had gender-neutral dorming options and an LGBT “theme hall” since 2005… but congrats to Columbia for finally starting to think about it!
I forsee a lot of conserative panties getting bunched up…
sean manning udell is hot.
I had a straight roommate who had his girlfriend over every night. It was fucking terrible. I wish they could have just gotten their own room together.
This isn’t homophobia.
The University of Maryland, College Park, has had gender-neutral housing for two years now. But, yes, good for Columbia for considering it.
Hell no! If you don’t learn in college that life isn’t easy and you don’t always get what you want where are you going to learn it? It is 2009. If we keep segregating ourselves when do we and others learn to live together?