What’s all the ruckus about coed dorms?
The president of Catholic University was in the news today announcing that the school would begin to phase out coed dorms and resort to the “old fashioned” way of living: single sex dormitories. The school has decided to take these measures as a means to battling “binge drinking and casual hook-ups.”
Hmm, this reminds me of that moment when I was younger and my mom said “don’t touch the stove” and of course, if you tell a toddler not to do something, they’re instantly on a mission to do the complete opposite — just to see what will happen.
But back to the topic at hand: segregating the guys from the girls won’t necessarily stop the casual hook-ups and binge drinking. That’s partially what college is all about! (Well that and your education of course!)
So it won’t matter if you have to go across the hall or across the campus; students are going to continue to drink & hook up as they please.
But I digress. I suppose there are a few pros and cons to having coed dorms.
Pros:
– gender neutral dorms promote a more LGBT-friendly campus.
– couples have the option of co-habitating
– coed dorms promote a more communal feel to campus living (uh, not sure of anyone’s noticed but the single sex homes aren’t doing too well in the real estate market. That was a joke by the way.)
cherry blossom / 29 posts
During freshman year of college, I lived in an all-girls dorm building. & This fall, I’ll be living in a co-ed building. It didn’t bother me living among all girls….. the boys weren’t far anyway. They were right outside! lol I have a boyfriend back at home so there were no hook-ups for me but from what i saw, these boys came in and out of the dorm building extremely often.
hydrangea / 81 posts
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I’d rather dorm with the shy and socially awkward geeky guy, who respects the noise level and is overall considerate or a bookworm shy girl. either gender, who isn’t loud and obnoxious.
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We had a co-ed building, but my particular hall was all girls. Too much drama. The co-ed halls existed more peacefully than the all girl halls. The all-boy halls were a little rough too. I think co-ed halls allow for a more balanced range of temperaments and personalities.
magnolia / 1369 posts
we have guys and girls living on one floor but there’s no rooms that have both guys and girls in them . the same goes for an apartment if it’s on campus housing. i personally think that it would be really interesting to live with a few guys =]
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unless the guy was gay, i would not feel comfortable living in the same dorm room with the opposite sex. mostly because in college, having girl roommates, we wouldn’t hesitate to walk around in our underwear. i guess i just wouldn’t feel able to completely relax if i were living with a straight guy who wasn’t my partner.
daisy / 734 posts
I had a co-ed floor this year, so even though I lived with a girl I had guys on either side of me, and our RA’s really didn’t care if we had guys sleep over. My friends who go to schools in the northwest are appalled when I tell them that I had guys as next door neighbors, since in the midwest it’s not as accepted that college students don’t need to be seperated by sex… some of my friends’ schools don’t even have co-ed buildings with genders on different floors! I don’t understand why it’s such a big deal, but I guess I’ve always been on the very liberal end of things…
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I attend a women’s college. Single sex dorms do nothing to “battle binge drinking and casual hook-ups.” The students more likely to engage in those activities will do them anyways. Potential hook-ups are never far away, and certainly neither is binge drinking!
One method that could help is orientation leaders, campus orgs, and res life student workers working together to educate their peers about simply behaving responsibly and knowing their limits.
peony / 1 posts
Honestly they look like hippie androgenous twins. Nothing a bigger waste of time in this world than hippie chicks in college.